{"id":87362,"date":"2021-06-26T09:08:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87362"},"modified":"2021-06-27T21:55:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T01:55:03","slug":"poem-1-tribute-to-edna-st-vincent-millay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-1-tribute-to-edna-st-vincent-millay\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 1:  Tribute to Edna St. Vincent Millay &#8220;Overlooking&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"long-line\">I will celebrate this day<\/span><\/p>\n<p>under the moody sky<\/p>\n<p>looking at the yawning flowers<\/p>\n<p>watching the doubtful birds fly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will not unearth<\/p>\n<p>any of those wonderful things<\/p>\n<p>letting things be<\/p>\n<p>as the Church bells ring<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The rolling hills<\/p>\n<p>challenge my eyes to wander<\/p>\n<p>the light breeze kissing the grass<\/p>\n<p>as I begin to hum, in senseless maunder<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have no answer<\/p>\n<p>or questions, for that matter<\/p>\n<p>as I look at the town&#8217;s waking lights<\/p>\n<p>no destination within the coming clatter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I look and think<\/p>\n<p>of what might be mine<\/p>\n<p>but maybe all of it is<\/p>\n<p>in this wondrous miracle of rhyme<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I mark my spots, claiming<\/p>\n<p>by saying I love them<\/p>\n<p>I will be back again<\/p>\n<p>strumming the music, of each stem<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will celebrate this day under the moody sky looking at the yawning flowers watching the doubtful birds fly &nbsp; I will not unearth any of those wonderful things letting things be as the Church bells ring &nbsp; The rolling hills challenge my eyes to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87362","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\/1447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103482,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87362\/revisions\/103482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}