{"id":88684,"date":"2021-06-26T10:24:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88684"},"modified":"2021-06-26T10:24:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:24:29","slug":"many-worlds-many-lives-prompthourtwo-imageprompt-thepoetrymarathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/many-worlds-many-lives-prompthourtwo-imageprompt-thepoetrymarathon\/","title":{"rendered":"many worlds, many lives #prompthourtwo #imageprompt #thepoetrymarathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many worlds do you inhabit?<\/p>\n<p>How many suns light your day?<\/p>\n<p>Where do you go when your soul needs healing,<\/p>\n<p>How many moons illuminate your way?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I thought I had a life once, one true<\/p>\n<p>And strong, where work kept me afloat<\/p>\n<p>But then came the children, the songs,<\/p>\n<p>The sketches to rock the boat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I live in many lives, parallel and fleeting<\/p>\n<p>Filled with the laughter of my children<\/p>\n<p>When my little family assembles<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere is better than my then.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes I hide deep inside,<\/p>\n<p>In places where light dares not roam<\/p>\n<p>I cross into rows upon rows of seats<\/p>\n<p>Inhabited by the dead I own<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But I know I will always return<\/p>\n<p>To my worlds and pick up the shells<\/p>\n<p>And stop to wonder, are these lives mere dreams,<\/p>\n<p>Or reflections reflecting upon themselves?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-88700\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/luke-thornton-lMD98s2sFx8-unsplash-1536x864-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/luke-thornton-lMD98s2sFx8-unsplash-1536x864-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/luke-thornton-lMD98s2sFx8-unsplash-1536x864-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/luke-thornton-lMD98s2sFx8-unsplash-1536x864-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/luke-thornton-lMD98s2sFx8-unsplash-1536x864-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many worlds do you inhabit? How many suns light your day? Where do you go when your soul needs healing, How many moons illuminate your way? &nbsp; I thought I had a life once, one true And strong, where work kept me afloat But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[4101,15,10],"class_list":["post-88684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2021poetrymarathon","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88684","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\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88731,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88684\/revisions\/88731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}