{"id":74992,"date":"2020-06-28T05:34:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T09:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74992"},"modified":"2020-06-28T05:44:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T09:44:04","slug":"poem-21-sleep-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/poem-21-sleep-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 21 | {Sleep} \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved &#8211; 7 pm 28\/06\/2020 Australian EST<\/p>\n<p>Prompt 21; Hour 21: Write a poem about what you are longing for most right now.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>{<b>Sleep<\/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<div>Sleep tantalises me<\/div>\n<div>teasing and cajoling<\/div>\n<div>crooning her ancient melodies<\/div>\n<div>once sung by the Sirens<\/div>\n<div>in attempting to lure Ulysses<\/div>\n<div>to his peril on the treacherous rocks<\/div>\n<div>Her voice is tender and sweet<\/div>\n<div>but when I longingly reach for her<\/div>\n<div>she swirls out of my grasp.<\/div>\n<div>Now, hour upon hour<\/div>\n<div>I am compelled to chase her<\/div>\n<div>As between each stolen snippet<\/div>\n<div>of unconscious reverie<\/div>\n<div>I am tormented by a torrent<\/div>\n<div>of evocative words<\/div>\n<div>that swirl and leap<\/div>\n<div>from my weary mind<\/div>\n<div>and plead to be written<\/div>\n<div>lest they are lost<\/div>\n<div>to the watery depths<\/div>\n<div>of the underworld<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved &#8211; 7 pm 28\/06\/2020 Australian EST Prompt 21; Hour 21: Write a poem about what you are longing for most right now. _______________________________________________________________ &nbsp; {Sleep} \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#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-74992","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\/74992","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=74992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75285,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74992\/revisions\/75285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}