{"id":76873,"date":"2020-06-28T11:49:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T15:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=76873"},"modified":"2020-06-28T19:18:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T23:18:41","slug":"prompt-5-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-5-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt #5 Death (2014 Prompt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death is the theme of many poems and the preoccupation of many poets. Still after all this time poets are churning out new and intriguing approaches to death in poetry.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of this prompt is to write a poem about death. The death you write about could be imagined, personified, personal, true, or false. The details of this prompt are entirely up to you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The idea of dying scares me.<br \/>\nIt haunts me in my dreams and nightmares<br \/>\nIt feels so final and certain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Where do we go from there?<br \/>\nHeaven?<br \/>\nor hell?<br \/>\nor do we just disintegrate into the soil?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I am not ready to die&#8230;<br \/>\nI am never going to be ready for death<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">A certain uncomfortable feeling<br \/>\nsettles over me as I struggle to<br \/>\ngrapple with what death personally means to me.<br \/>\nExpressing my emotions about death<br \/>\nis somehow very difficult as I am at a loss for words.<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t acknowledged death<br \/>\nor even its eventuality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I&#8217;ll try as hard as I can<br \/>\nto write something on death<br \/>\nI guess..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Death is<br \/>\n-Devoted and patient.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Death is<br \/>\n-a welcomed relief to the suffering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Death is<br \/>\n-a one way street.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Death is<br \/>\n-the celebration of life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Death is<br \/>\n-sometimes so sudden<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Death<br \/>\nonly takes, it never gives.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76874 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/haruki-murakami-60523-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/haruki-murakami-60523-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/haruki-murakami-60523.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death is the theme of many poems and the preoccupation of many poets. Still after all this time poets are churning out new and intriguing approaches to death in poetry. The goal of this prompt is to write a poem about death. The death you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76873","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\/897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77150,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76873\/revisions\/77150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}