{"id":77065,"date":"2020-06-28T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=77065"},"modified":"2020-06-28T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T21:00:09","slug":"walking-with-the-light-hour-ten-a-somanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/walking-with-the-light-hour-ten-a-somanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking with the Light (Hour Ten, A Somanka)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77078\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/angel-mom-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/angel-mom-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/angel-mom-1024x873.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/angel-mom-768x655.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/angel-mom.jpg 1059w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">Walking with the Light<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Please, Momma, tell me,<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em>can Life go on without you?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em>My heart won&#8217;t believe.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em>My mind cannot conceive of<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em>a world without your smile.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right\"><em><span style=\"color: #993366\">My dear LaChrista,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em><span style=\"color: #993366\">apple of my eye, best friend,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em><span style=\"color: #993366\">be-lov-ed daughter,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em><span style=\"color: #993366\">I promise you&#8217;ll be okay.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em><span style=\"color: #993366\">I&#8217;m still walking beside you.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><em><strong>For LaChrista, the daughter she left behind<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><em><strong>In loving memory of my soul sister Derese\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(A somonka is a pair of tankas written in two different voices that carries a central theme of love. Each tanka is composed of five lines, with a syllable count of 5\/7\/5\/7\/7, respectively.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking with the Light Please, Momma, tell me, can Life go on without you? My heart won&#8217;t believe. My mind cannot conceive of a world without your smile. My dear LaChrista, apple of my eye, best friend, be-lov-ed daughter, I promise you&#8217;ll be okay. I&#8217;m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-miscellaneous","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77065","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\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77065"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77085,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77065\/revisions\/77085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}