As the moon climbs over the hill,
\nThe creatures out in the wild
\nWary of the noise, less heard
\nAnd the air breathless<\/p>\n
There’s something awry in the air tonight
\nBoth mystical and dark, unclean,
\nShadows are lurking by old stone walls
\nIn wait for a sign to be seen,<\/p>\n
Wearing her smoke-black cloak in the dance
\nAnd fluttering like the vampire bat
\nGrapped her broom only to cut the wind
\nAnd fly over the tomb<\/p>\n
The flight went over the hill,
\nSteep and Swift
\nThe crackling sounds of mirth,
\nThen the air is cold and still.<\/p>\n
While watchful eyes at the window-sill
\nWent straight through the vast land
\nOut to the farm,
\nWill get not a minute’s sleep this night.<\/p>\n
But the witches danced in a grove of trees
\nQuite hidden from anyone’s sight,
\nWishing to fly high while the Moon is bright!
\nCoz’ tonight is the magical mystery night<\/p>\n
They mounted their broomsticks, held their breath
\nThen leapt each one with a scream,
\nAnd the screams could be heard a mile away
\nIn the Season of the Witch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As the moon climbs over the hill, The creatures out in the wild Wary of the noise, less heard And the air breathless There’s something awry in the air tonight Both mystical and dark, unclean, Shadows are lurking by old stone walls In wait for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,5],"tags":[3663,2293,1574],"class_list":["post-66875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2020poetry-marathon","tag-hour7","tag-prompt7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67210,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66875\/revisions\/67210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}