{"id":67029,"date":"2020-06-27T15:25:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67029"},"modified":"2020-06-30T23:13:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T03:13:11","slug":"prompt-7-hour-7-the-season-of-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-7-hour-7-the-season-of-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 7, Hour 7 &#8211; The Season of Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shhhh!<\/p>\n<p>Not yet.<\/p>\n<p>We are but tinsels of opportunity,<\/p>\n<p>waiting for the right occasion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is taking risk,<\/p>\n<p>and there is being risky with an unguided attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Change befalls those ready<\/p>\n<p>for the transformation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So we wait.<\/p>\n<p>Days,<\/p>\n<p>weeks,<\/p>\n<p>months,<\/p>\n<p>years.<\/p>\n<p>For him,<\/p>\n<p>for her,<\/p>\n<p>for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Now is not yet as we want it,<\/p>\n<p>but the air in our lungs fails to deliver a pulse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So we wait.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stillness reveals our pattern.<\/p>\n<p>A deep self reflection<\/p>\n<p>brings a change in the currents of our perceptions.<\/p>\n<p>We wait, we are still,<\/p>\n<p>and yet something is happening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Puzzling truth dawns eventually,<\/p>\n<p>that it was time well spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shhhh! Not yet. We are but tinsels of opportunity, waiting for the right occasion. &nbsp; There is taking risk, and there is being risky with an unguided attempt. Change befalls those ready for the transformation. &nbsp; So we wait. Days, weeks, months, years. For him,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67029","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\/1279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77755,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67029\/revisions\/77755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}