{"id":89494,"date":"2021-06-26T12:02:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89494"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:02:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:02:15","slug":"a-hungry-life-half-marathon-hour-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-hungry-life-half-marathon-hour-4\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hungry Life (Half Marathon Hour 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michellia Wilson<br \/>\nPoetry Marathon Hour 4 (2021)<\/p>\n<p><strong>A HUNGRY LIFE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My heart beats<br \/>\nin rhythm of an intense hunger,<br \/>\non the banks the willows<br \/>\nshare their ruffles hovering over<br \/>\na moving lake.<\/p>\n<p>Only for admirers does the<br \/>\nglistening pond lap against<br \/>\na grassy edge on a cold noon.<br \/>\nI know this place well &#8211;<br \/>\nlife in the water mills around<br \/>\nthe murky water<br \/>\nand an occasional Heron glides<br \/>\neasily over the platter of fish<br \/>\nbelow the glassy cloche.<\/p>\n<p>Never, in my heart, is life just enough-<br \/>\nThe breaths I take above<br \/>\nthe water falls full circle<br \/>\nwith the trees and the water.<br \/>\nLife is hungry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michellia Wilson Poetry Marathon Hour 4 (2021) A HUNGRY LIFE My heart beats in rhythm of an intense hunger, on the banks the willows share their ruffles hovering over a moving lake. Only for admirers does the glistening pond lap against a grassy edge on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89494","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90114,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89494\/revisions\/90114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}