“It’s just a stupid plant”<\/p>\n
Nustled in moist dirt<\/p>\n
Sitting in my hands<\/p>\n
Reaching for the sunlight<\/p>\n
Whispering oxygen into my nose<\/p>\n
A sapling<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
She will outlive us<\/p>\n
Her growth quiet and restrained<\/p>\n
Tall she will be<\/p>\n
Strong and fruitful<\/p>\n
Two lovers sit beneath<\/p>\n
Carving their love into her trunk<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
She will shed her leaves<\/p>\n
Slinking them off like a silk robe<\/p>\n
Twisting her branches in the wind<\/p>\n
Stretching<\/p>\n
Throughout the seasons she will live<\/p>\n
Though parts of her will die<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Looking around her she will find no one like her<\/p>\n
A single tree in a park<\/p>\n
How sad is that?<\/p>\n
Harsh weathers will tempt her<\/p>\n
Slip into the darkness<\/em><\/p>\n She will persist<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kids no longer climb her in an attempt at flying<\/p>\n They disappear altogether<\/p>\n She is sad<\/p>\n But then something miraculous begins<\/p>\n More like her begin to appear<\/p>\n The world has ended but the Earth has not<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She begins to grow even more vast<\/p>\n Her friends rushing to catch up<\/p>\n The sky turns a magical shade of violet<\/p>\n The clouds polka dot the sky<\/p>\n New birds appear<\/p>\n They sing happier tunes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “It’s just a stupid plant” Nustled in moist dirt Sitting in my hands Reaching for the sunlight Whispering oxygen into my nose A sapling She will outlive us Her growth quiet and restrained Tall she will be Strong and fruitful Two lovers sit beneath…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72023","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\/1204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72135,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72023\/revisions\/72135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}