{"id":7986,"date":"2015-06-13T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2015-06-13T12:17:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:17:09","slug":"hour-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour-4-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Surrender<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From a century of mistakes that I could choose to make<br \/>\nI chose what put the laws of love at stake<\/p>\n<p>I am fire, he, the sumptuous calling sky<br \/>\nI am earthbound, he, heavenly high<br \/>\nIn passion irrevocable, I betray my creation<br \/>\nWhere, my binding tradition, do I find my aspiration?<\/p>\n<p>From a century of mistakes that I could choose to make<br \/>\nI chose what put the laws of love at stake<\/p>\n<p>I am the soul of his love, he utterly unaware<br \/>\nI am those desires inconsolable, bounds beware<br \/>\nIn the ringing of the wind and the caress of the rain<br \/>\nHow long creation, must my heart you detain?<\/p>\n<p>From a century of mistakes that I could choose to make<br \/>\nI chose what put the laws of love at stake<\/p>\n<p>I am a distant twinkle, he a wonder blinding<br \/>\nI am a drizzle bashful, he a deluge in hiding<br \/>\nIn nights of wonder wandering the unholy<br \/>\nNature, why may I not make him mine solely?<\/p>\n<p>From a century of mistakes I could choose to make<br \/>\nI chose what put the laws of love at stake<\/p>\n<p>I am evident, existing, he, unnoticed a thought<br \/>\nI am burning, sinking, he, the refuge sought<br \/>\nIn the forever bubbling, singing stream<br \/>\nO life cruel, why is he only a dream?<\/p>\n<p>Tradition, creation, nature and life, may all you take<br \/>\nI gather apologies but no regret for my mistake<br \/>\nFor I willfully surrender to each error I make<br \/>\nAnd put all laws of love at stake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surrender From a century of mistakes that I could choose to make I chose what put the laws of love at stake I am fire, he, the sumptuous calling sky I am earthbound, he, heavenly high In passion irrevocable, I betray my creation Where, my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986","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\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8007,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions\/8007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}