{"id":87825,"date":"2021-06-26T09:31:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87825"},"modified":"2021-06-26T09:31:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:31:06","slug":"hour-one-prompt-write-a-poem-about-an-ending-by-nancy-ann-smith-june-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-one-prompt-write-a-poem-about-an-ending-by-nancy-ann-smith-june-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour One Prompt \u2013 write a poem about an ending\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0by\u00a0 Nancy Ann Smith,\u00a0 \u00a0June 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1929 \u2013 2005<\/p>\n<p>Mom\u2019s passing was exactly<\/p>\n<p>What a daughter would expect<\/p>\n<p>And so much more<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mom always did strive<\/p>\n<p>To comfort those around her<\/p>\n<p>With her sweet ear for listening<\/p>\n<p>And so much more<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gerry didn\u2019t dive<\/p>\n<p>Into conversation or debate<\/p>\n<p>But she responded with her heart<\/p>\n<p>And so much more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mom would often drive<\/p>\n<p>Home from Sunday Mass<\/p>\n<p>And tell a family story that matched the gospel message<\/p>\n<p>And so much more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if she did contrive<\/p>\n<p>To make her hospice days full &#8212; of chances to say goodbye<\/p>\n<p>With messages of pride in each of us,<\/p>\n<p>And so much more love than words can convey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1929 \u2013 2005 Mom\u2019s passing was exactly What a daughter would expect And so much more &nbsp; Mom always did strive To comfort those around her With her sweet ear for listening And so much more &nbsp; Gerry didn\u2019t dive Into conversation or debate But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87825","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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87846,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87825\/revisions\/87846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}