{"id":88612,"date":"2021-06-26T10:19:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88612"},"modified":"2021-06-26T10:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:19:26","slug":"the-joy-of-unseen-things-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-joy-of-unseen-things-4\/","title":{"rendered":"the joy of unseen things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>the joy of unseen things<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>our ancestors dreamed us here,<\/p>\n<p>according to my teachers,<\/p>\n<p>who know such things<\/p>\n<p>beyond the reach of grasping fingers<\/p>\n<p>around the throats of loneliness,<\/p>\n<p>separation,<\/p>\n<p>or despair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the imperceptible changes in breath,<\/p>\n<p>reveal,<\/p>\n<p>moment by moment,<\/p>\n<p>so many tiny windows to sing from<\/p>\n<p>or jump out of.<\/p>\n<p>who\u2019s to condone the thought of either?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>because<\/p>\n<p>our ancestors dreamed us here,<\/p>\n<p>holding hands with eternity,<\/p>\n<p>so that all the heavy lifting is hidden<\/p>\n<p>under a mote of dust.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(c) r. l. elke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the joy of unseen things \u00a0 our ancestors dreamed us here, according to my teachers, who know such things beyond the reach of grasping fingers around the throats of loneliness, separation, or despair. &nbsp; the imperceptible changes in breath, reveal, moment by moment, so many&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88612","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88634,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88612\/revisions\/88634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}