{"id":87578,"date":"2021-06-26T09:31:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87578"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:37:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:37:27","slug":"closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Closure (Hour 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the evening sky presses down on the distant hillside,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the last lines of light fan apart, streaking thin,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">like pale darts flashing in a final instant<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">disappearing beyond in the world unseen.<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chapters closing on his tongue,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">swords sheathed, farewells laid into their beds for sleep.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unity, rebirth, or eternal departure<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">resolution rests in the soft exhaling words.<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fizzling sparks flame bright, swift recollection <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">calling for the mind to acknowledge,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the heart swept up in the current of meaning,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lost before she can say his name.<\/span> \r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Does everything that ends burst apart before it dies?<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sunset's retreating brilliance,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a storyteller's dagger gleaming, twisting,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The mind's feeble memory, illuminating an old face.<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How sad are the finalities of fire,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">whisping, choking light, shrinking from the air\u2014<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a dying dance falling beneath the underside of ash,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">buried in the remnants of its own consumption.<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the evening sky presses down on the distant hillside, the last lines of light fan apart, streaking thin, like pale darts flashing in a final instant disappearing beyond in the world unseen. \u00a0\u00a0 Chapters closing on his tongue, swords sheathed, farewells laid into their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87578","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87578"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100423,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87578\/revisions\/100423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}