{"id":70037,"date":"2020-06-27T19:24:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70037"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:24:33","slug":"poem-11-the-garden-of-earthly-delights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/poem-11-the-garden-of-earthly-delights\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 11 | {The Garden of Earthly Delights}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved &#8211; 9am Australian EST<\/p>\n<p>Prompt 11: Write a poem about or set in a place you have never been to. It could be a real concrete location, or something more metaphorical, imaginary or fictional \u2013 somewhere over the rainbow comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>{The Garden of Earthly Delights}<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the garden of earthly delights<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The yellow roses grow wild and free<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Unattended they flourish bright spring sunlight<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Petals strewn by the wind in gay reverie<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In profusion they sing to the clouds above<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Though nothing compares to the single rose<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Brought to me on the wings of love<\/p>\n<p>by the lover of mine who providence chose<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the garden of earthly delights<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ribbons of remembrance gaily flutter<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A heartland rich with heavenly scent<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Encircling the words we once feared to utter<\/p>\n<p>Liberation is ours if we only embraced it<\/p>\n<p>The way to the heart is open and fair<\/p>\n<p>A mending of minds if only we faced it<\/p>\n<p>The cure for all evils is kindness and care<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved &#8211; 9am Australian EST Prompt 11: Write a poem about or set in a place you have never been to. It could be a real concrete location, or something more metaphorical, imaginary or fictional \u2013 somewhere over the rainbow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70037","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\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70327,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70037\/revisions\/70327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}