By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved – 4 pm 28\/06\/2020 Australian EST<\/p>\n
Prompt 18; Hour 18: Write a narrative poem set during a holiday. It could be a poem based on your own lived experience or it could be an imagined event. A narrative poem is a poem that tells a story, but the story does not have to be compete, nor does it have to be told in a linear way.<\/p>\n
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{Road Trip} Conjoined Haikus<\/strong><\/p>\n We traced her thick skin As our eyes squinted The vast nothingness Above the skyline Birds with not a care Occasional rise Wheat wheat forever In the far distance A nondescript creek Blink of an eye towns The Newell Highway <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved – 4 pm 28\/06\/2020 Australian EST Prompt 18; Hour 18: Write a narrative poem set during a holiday. It could be a poem based on your own lived experience or it could be an imagined event. A narrative poem…<\/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-73590","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\/73590","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=73590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74213,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73590\/revisions\/74213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSkimming a flat miraged plain
\nTrees tantalising<\/p>\n
\nA shimmering horizon
\nTaunted and deceived<\/p>\n
\nWas strewn with wheat and lucerne
\nGrass parrots rejoiced<\/p>\n
\nFoliage danced and cavorted
\nHanging in mid-air<\/p>\n
\nFighting over fresh roadkill
\nBitumen graveyard<\/p>\n
\nTerrain and conversation
\nPunctuates silence<\/p>\n
\nFarmers and eagles harvest
\nGrain. Marsupial.<\/p>\n
\nFaint rocky outcrops emerge
\nBringing aesthetic relief<\/p>\n
\nMeandering with intent
\nWelcome to tired minds<\/p>\n
\nSolitary general store
\nBain Marie delights<\/p>\n
\nCan’t wait to get to this place
\nCoonabarabran<\/p>\n