{"id":8299,"date":"2015-06-13T13:38:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2015-06-13T13:39:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:39:37","slug":"flaming-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/flaming-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaming Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nPoem Five for the Hour Five<\/p>\n<p>he invented the pendulum of change<br \/>\nwelcomes each difference to create<br \/>\nkaleidoscope of men&#8217;s healing grounds<br \/>\nhe is a matchstick lighting candles<br \/>\nof small words of the small worlds<br \/>\nhe is a street corner of philosophy<br \/>\nson of S.A.P.-Socrates, Aristotle and Plato<br \/>\nS. who didn&#8217;t write books but gave<br \/>\na rise to teacher&#8217;s teachings<br \/>\nA. for his long walk to the Golden Mean<br \/>\na counsel in moderating things<br \/>\nP. with his great physique<br \/>\nwho believed in pre-existence<br \/>\nand immortality of the soul<br \/>\nhe is a Father of all fathers<br \/>\nnot a demigod who spits feign<br \/>\nhis mind soars the infinite horizons<br \/>\nhis flame goes beyond<br \/>\ntruth of all truths<br \/>\nhe is the timeless ageless warrior<br \/>\nlike Vulcan&#8217;s undefeated fire<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vulcan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vulcan-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"Vulcan\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8522\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>(c) Ceri Naz<br \/>\nphoto credit: http:\/\/www.mythencyclopedia.com\/Tr-Wa\/Vulcan.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem Five for the Hour Five he invented the pendulum of change welcomes each difference to create kaleidoscope of men&#8217;s healing grounds he is a matchstick lighting candles of small words of the small worlds he is a street corner of philosophy son of S.A.P.-Socrates,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[294,556,555,520,557],"class_list":["post-8299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-change","tag-god-of-fire","tag-hour-five","tag-persona","tag-philosophers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299","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\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8554,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions\/8554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}