{"id":70596,"date":"2020-06-27T20:55:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70596"},"modified":"2020-06-27T20:55:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:55:49","slug":"the-universe-is-made-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-universe-is-made-of\/","title":{"rendered":"The Universe Is Made Of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Things Everyone Knows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Roses are Red<br \/>\nAnd Violets are Blue<\/p>\n<p>Little Girls are Made of<br \/>\nSugar and Spice<br \/>\nAnd Everything-Nice<\/p>\n<p>Little Boys are Made of<br \/>\nFrogs-and-Snails<br \/>\nAnd Puppy-Dog-Tails<\/p>\n<p>The Little Dog Laughed to See Such a Sport<br \/>\nAnd The Dish Ran Away with The Spoon<\/p>\n<p><strong>Things Few Know:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Explanations grow longer as fewer understand.<\/p>\n<p>Punctuation was made for the ignorant to know how to read (and, specifically, to know when to STOP).<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow and Today are Fragmentary Figments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Top-Ranked Unknown Thing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Universe isn\u2019t made of Carbon and Atoms,<br \/>\nOf Molecules and Energy;<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not crafted of Memories<br \/>\nNor Designed By God(s).<\/p>\n<p>The Universe is made<br \/>\nOf All Those Secret, Unspoken Feelings &#8211;<br \/>\nOf Words Caught Behind Lips and Tucked Behind Teeth,<br \/>\nOf Thoughts Held Behind Ears and Buried In Hearts,<br \/>\nOf Tears Never Spilled and Loves Never Ventured,<br \/>\nOf Touches Unfelt,<br \/>\nOf Wishes Not Chased,<br \/>\nOf Dreams Forgotten To Remember<br \/>\nOf Epiphanies Unlit.<\/p>\n<p>The Universe is Lost And Undiscovered,<br \/>\nDespite What We Believe,<br \/>\nDespite What We All Know, too.<\/p>\n<p>This is why, of course, no one knows it, but I &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>And, perhaps now,<br \/>\nPossibly,<br \/>\nYou &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>And why we\u2019re here,<br \/>\nOn this planet<br \/>\nRather than<br \/>\nI Knowing You.<\/p>\n<p>** Prompt by Sheel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things Everyone Knows: Roses are Red And Violets are Blue Little Girls are Made of Sugar and Spice And Everything-Nice Little Boys are Made of Frogs-and-Snails And Puppy-Dog-Tails The Little Dog Laughed to See Such a Sport And The Dish Ran Away with The Spoon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[3807,3442,10],"class_list":["post-70596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-2020hr12","tag-2020poetrymarathon","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70596","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=70596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71412,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70596\/revisions\/71412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}