{"id":70479,"date":"2020-06-27T19:46:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70479"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:46:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:46:41","slug":"twelve-times-til-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/twelve-times-til-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Times &#8216;Til Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>There\u2019s a better place than here,<\/em><br \/>\nI said.<br \/>\n<em>It\u2019s at least twelve times prettier,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And it has twelve days in every week.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>There are twelve rainbows after every storm<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Instead of, maybe, only three.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The hourglasses are twelve hours long,<\/em><br \/>\nI reminded him,<br \/>\n<em>Just like on Earth,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>So, that\u2019s not confusing.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But, there are three twelve-hour parts<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Instead of only two.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I made it that way,<\/em><br \/>\nI explained,<br \/>\n<em>Because it reminded me of you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And love,<\/em><br \/>\nI said,<br \/>\n<em>Isn\u2019t frivolous; there are at least thirteen words<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In this language, alone,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To specify your direct meaning.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I got tired,<\/em><br \/>\nI shrugged,<br \/>\n<em>Of all the important parts<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Being lost in the shuffle of things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We can go tomorrow,<\/em><br \/>\nI suggested,<br \/>\n<em>Since it takes twelve times \u2019til Tuesday.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And all of what you love most, here,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Can be packed in photo-boxes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He looked at me like I was mad,<br \/>\nLike I had lost my mind.<br \/>\nAnd though I did &#8211; once or twice or thrice before,<br \/>\nAnd nearly a fourth time &#8211;<br \/>\nThe funny thing about photography<br \/>\nIs you keep a picture of things;<br \/>\nAnd reference tools break all the rules<br \/>\nSo, I found it thrice again.<\/p>\n<p>And, once I\u2019d played lost-and-found<br \/>\nThose thrice-over times,<br \/>\nI found a portal to a magic place<br \/>\nWhere I could find my heart again.<\/p>\n<p>Stranger yet is learning, next,<br \/>\nThat, once one\u2019s lost their mind,<br \/>\nFinding pieces of one\u2019s heart<br \/>\nBecomes an easier thing.<\/p>\n<p>It took some convincing,<br \/>\nI\u2019ll tell you that,<br \/>\nFor him to believe I wasn\u2019t crazed.<\/p>\n<p>But, when we\u2019d traveled eleven times<br \/>\nAnd nearly passed next Wednesday,<br \/>\nHe saw that, just around the time<br \/>\nThat the sands were almost fallen<br \/>\nThe world I\u2019d promised was just beyond<\/p>\n<p>At precisely twelve times \u2019til Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a better place than here, I said. It\u2019s at least twelve times prettier, And it has twelve days in every week. There are twelve rainbows after every storm Instead of, maybe, only three. The hourglasses are twelve hours long, I reminded him, Just like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[3796,3442,1614,482,10],"class_list":["post-70479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2020hr11","tag-2020poetrymarathon","tag-fantasy","tag-fantasy-genre","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70479","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\/1098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70562,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70479\/revisions\/70562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}