{"id":74866,"date":"2020-06-28T04:59:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T08:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74866"},"modified":"2020-06-28T05:02:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T09:02:12","slug":"poem-20-my-flame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/poem-20-my-flame\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 20 | {My Flame} \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved &#8211; 6 pm 28\/06\/2020 Australian EST<\/p>\n<p>Prompt 20; Hour 20: Because it\u2019s probably very dark out right now for most of the participants, the prompt for this hour is to write a poem involving light of any kind, from the sun to a lamp to a candle.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>{<b>My Flame<\/b>} <\/strong><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p class=\"p1\">My flame flickering beckoned<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Vivid radiant replete<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A core of cobalt blue<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Intense with simmering heat<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Plump moth that you were then<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Powdered wings in fragile flight<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Engorged with possibility<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Attracted to my light<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Entranced yet with uncertainty<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">You glimpsed my molten core<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And once encompassed by my heat<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">you begged and pleaded for more.<\/p>\n<p>But alas it is the way of things<\/p>\n<p>that dark seeks out the bright<\/p>\n<p>and in your haste to engulf me<\/p>\n<p>you managed to dim the light.<\/p>\n<p>It is the nature of coexistence<\/p>\n<p>that light needs dark to thrive<\/p>\n<p>but if either becomes too needy<\/p>\n<p>their love will not survive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved &#8211; 6 pm 28\/06\/2020 Australian EST Prompt 20; Hour 20: Because it\u2019s probably very dark out right now for most of the participants, the prompt for this hour is to write a poem involving light of any kind, from&#8230;<\/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-74866","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\/74866","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=74866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74979,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74866\/revisions\/74979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}