{"id":74963,"date":"2020-06-28T05:01:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T09:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74963"},"modified":"2021-04-17T14:34:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:34:29","slug":"light-for-you-and-for-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/light-for-you-and-for-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Light for you and for the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Light for you and for the World<\/p>\n<p>Because it is probably very dark out right now<br \/>\nfor you, as it&#8217;s been for the world in the hands<br \/>\nof a callous virus, I&#8217;ve chosen to walk the lonely<br \/>\npath with you. Songs for you, mother. And for<br \/>\nthe world too, to lighten our walkways to a place,<br \/>\nwhere the palms of God are a haven of songs.<br \/>\nPicture the seraphs singing beautiful songs<br \/>\nof hope. Hum them, songs. And sing them aloud.<br \/>\nI opted to be a poetry marathoner rather than a mourner,<br \/>\ncomposing songs for you to carry in your mouth \u2013<br \/>\nfull blown flowered roses for you, mother.<br \/>\nLight for the world, for me, for us, too afraid<br \/>\nto sleep at night: a monster lurks behind our doors.<br \/>\nI am awake, running poetic marathon for a day,<br \/>\nno sleep to gift you songs in the form of poems,<br \/>\nto lighten your grief or burn them into flakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light for you and for the World Because it is probably very dark out right now for you, as it&#8217;s been for the world in the hands of a callous virus, I&#8217;ve chosen to walk the lonely path with you. Songs for you, mother. And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74963","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\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86342,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74963\/revisions\/86342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}