{"id":86524,"date":"2021-06-13T22:58:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T02:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=86524"},"modified":"2021-06-13T23:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T03:00:35","slug":"brimming-with-excitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/brimming-with-excitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Brimming with Excitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-86527\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PicsArt_04-12-07.01.35-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PicsArt_04-12-07.01.35-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PicsArt_04-12-07.01.35-1024x939.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PicsArt_04-12-07.01.35-768x704.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PicsArt_04-12-07.01.35.jpg 1309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Greetings!<\/p>\n<p>How is everyone this fine day?<\/p>\n<p>That is, it\u2019s day for me here in Queensland Australia\u2026 12:30 on a cool winter\u2019s day.<br \/>\nThe sun is shining however it lacks real warmth unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>I am excited to be participating in the Poetry Marathon, mostly because poetry and writing have been the two longest passions of my sixty years. Seldom does a day pass when I don\u2019t write something.<\/p>\n<p>I believe my love of writing blossomed due to an isolated childhood living in the Australian wilderness, mostly in a mobile home. I lived in town with populations of as little as 20 people, although often my family lived in complete isolation, at abandoned towns or by a river or stretch of coast.<\/p>\n<p>My younger brother and I did home school and rarely connected with children of any age.<br \/>\nAnd that is where my great love of writing and Nature comes from.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years I taught myself digital art\/manipulation which I like to create to illustrate my writing.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve never been published or made any money from writing or art\u2026 but one never knows what the future holds.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun everyone and happy writing!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; One last thought, I am a little confused about the Time Difference between\u00a0 Queensland Australia and when the starting time is&#8230; can someone help me with this?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Soar<\/p>\n<p>\u2026down meandering paths<br \/>\nmy feet wandered<br \/>\npassed mosses and shadowy glens\u2026<br \/>\nrainforest surprises round the curve of every bend<br \/>\nchiming birdsong echoed<br \/>\nin moist verdant vales<br \/>\nand far above the tangled trees<br \/>\npearlescent clouds sailed\u2026.<br \/>\nlaughing waterfalls tumbled<br \/>\ndown mountains I adore<br \/>\nand as if intoxicated by the very air<br \/>\nI felt my spirit soar\u2026<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_210614_125501_435.sdocx--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sharonlee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Greetings! How is everyone this fine day? That is, it\u2019s day for me here in Queensland Australia\u2026 12:30 on a cool winter\u2019s day. The sun is shining however it lacks real warmth unfortunately. I am excited to be participating in the Poetry Marathon, mostly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[3446],"class_list":["post-86524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions","category-miscellaneous","tag-introductions-thepoetrymarathon2019-poetryforthesoul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86524","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\/2104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86530,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86524\/revisions\/86530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}