{"id":7301,"date":"2015-06-13T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=7301"},"modified":"2015-06-13T11:04:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:04:12","slug":"the-hushing-ballade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/the-hushing-ballade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hushing Ballade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An artist knows the soul&#8217;s effect.<\/p>\n<p>Drops of blue hued eternity<\/p>\n<p>On Life&#8217;s canvas forever kept-<\/p>\n<p>Fierce, Bold, tremendously mighty<\/p>\n<p>Deliberately drawn safety<\/p>\n<p>With each brush stroke a million tries<\/p>\n<p>Capturing time&#8217;s humanity<\/p>\n<p>Hush, little lady, dry your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Musicians call souls to connect.<\/p>\n<p>Harmonious identity<\/p>\n<p>In melodic magic enrapt-<\/p>\n<p>Echoing, pings, ringing beauty<\/p>\n<p>Where silence cannot be guilty<\/p>\n<p>Missing the dulcimer&#8217;s strummed cries<\/p>\n<p>Organ breathing humanity<\/p>\n<p>Hush, little lady, dry your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A woman&#8217;s soul feeds to protect.<\/p>\n<p>That nourishing mentality<\/p>\n<p>Abundant, fruitful, never scapt-<\/p>\n<p>At times bitter, sweet, and salty<\/p>\n<p>Lest one starve; succumb to frailty<\/p>\n<p>Invigotating &#8216;neath her skies<\/p>\n<p>Satisfying humanity<\/p>\n<p>Hush, little lady, dry your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your soul is my reality.<\/p>\n<p>Your legacy, \u00a0it never dies-<\/p>\n<p>Drawn song feeding humanity<\/p>\n<p>Hush, little lady, dry your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>by Karen Sullivan<\/p>\n<p>Form: Ballade<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist knows the soul&#8217;s effect. Drops of blue hued eternity On Life&#8217;s canvas forever kept- Fierce, Bold, tremendously mighty Deliberately drawn safety With each brush stroke a million tries Capturing time&#8217;s humanity Hush, little lady, dry your eyes. &nbsp; Musicians call souls to connect&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-7301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-alzheimers-poetrymarathon2015-karensullivan-ballade-verseofbarbara-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301","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\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7430,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions\/7430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}