{"id":76887,"date":"2020-06-28T12:28:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T16:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=76887"},"modified":"2020-06-28T19:16:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T23:16:49","slug":"prompt-7-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-7-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt #7 (2014 prompt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Title a poem as you would start a letter with Dear \u201cinsert name here\u201d, then go on to write a poem to the person whose name you used. That person could be real or fully imagined. The contents of the poem could contain truth or fiction, but you must keep in mind the duel nature of this poem, it is a letter as well as a poem.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Nadine,<\/p>\n<p>I love you with all my heart.<br \/>\nI appreciate you and your friendship<br \/>\nThe times we shared -I truly cherish.<br \/>\nThe memories we made<br \/>\nwill always be in my heart -unforgettable.<br \/>\nI will never forget<br \/>\nhow comfortable you made me feel in your presence.<br \/>\nAnd how you always had my back.<br \/>\nYou were my true friend.<br \/>\nI love how we&#8217;d be able to pick things up where we left them.<br \/>\nThank you for contributing towards my growth.<br \/>\nThank you for being part of my life.<\/p>\n<p>Times have changed<br \/>\nwe find it hard to catch up for months on end.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t harbor any hard feelings towards you.<br \/>\nWe have sort of drifted apart,<br \/>\nyet I feel connected to you<br \/>\nwith the friendship we once shared.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t say you&#8217;re a stranger<br \/>\nI still love you<br \/>\nand wish you the best in life.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just that I never imagined our friendship<br \/>\nwould come to this.<br \/>\nThis space where finding the time to talk would get so difficult.<br \/>\nThe silence between us is awkward.<br \/>\nI guess this is the end of the road for us.<\/p>\n<p>We must part ways.<br \/>\nAs much as I didn&#8217;t want to accept it,<br \/>\nI am, in this moment, writing to you.<br \/>\nFarewell Special one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76895\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/friendship-relationships-connection-separation-amyjalapeno-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/friendship-relationships-connection-separation-amyjalapeno-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/friendship-relationships-connection-separation-amyjalapeno-1024x805.png 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/friendship-relationships-connection-separation-amyjalapeno-768x604.png 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/friendship-relationships-connection-separation-amyjalapeno.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title a poem as you would start a letter with Dear \u201cinsert name here\u201d, then go on to write a poem to the person whose name you used. That person could be real or fully imagined. The contents of the poem could contain truth or&#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-76887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76887","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=76887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77147,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76887\/revisions\/77147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}