{"id":6816,"date":"2015-06-13T09:42:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T13:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=6816"},"modified":"2015-06-13T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:58:36","slug":"my-life-submerged-poetry-half-marathon-2015-prompt-1-poem-by-ingrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/my-life-submerged-poetry-half-marathon-2015-prompt-1-poem-by-ingrid\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life Submerged-Poetry Half Marathon 2015- Prompt 1 Poem by Ingrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take the plunge<\/p>\n

My heart beat quickens<\/p>\n

Laboured breathing<\/p>\n

The anxiety thickens.<\/p>\n

An unknown world swirls beneath-<\/p>\n

grey mist gathers above,<\/p>\n

this watery sheath.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I gather my strength and with-<\/p>\n

hearty gasp,<\/p>\n

I plunge forward<\/p>\n

without a single lapse.<\/p>\n

Falling quickly backwards and then diving<\/p>\n

straight a head<\/p>\n

Toward this watery wonderland-<\/p>\n

I am led.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Submerged in wonder by thoughts<\/p>\n

filled in awe<\/p>\n

of oceanic wonders<\/p>\n

first ever saw.<\/p>\n

I swim down deeper<\/p>\n

and my world opens<\/p>\n

Anew!<\/p>\n

Oceanic beauty viewed by<\/p>\n

only a few.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Coral reefs rise-<\/p>\n

straight out of sand!<\/p>\n

Magestic wonders<\/p>\n

of this mesmerizing land.<\/p>\n

Fleeting colours swim<\/p>\n

by in streams<\/p>\n

flourescent dashes,<\/p>\n

schools and teams.<\/p>\n

Fish of every<\/p>\n

shape and size<\/p>\n

appear before-<\/p>\n

my bedazzled eyes.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I catch my breathe<\/p>\n

in the beauty here<\/p>\n

as my awe erases<\/p>\n

my once present fear.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Take the plunge My heart beat quickens Laboured breathing The anxiety thickens. An unknown world swirls beneath- grey mist gathers above, this watery sheath.   I gather my strength and with- hearty gasp, I plunge forward without a single lapse. Falling quickly backwards and then…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6816"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7389,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816\/revisions\/7389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}