{"id":89558,"date":"2021-06-26T11:53:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89558"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:35:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:35:10","slug":"repetition-prompt-hour-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/repetition-prompt-hour-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Repetition Prompt (Hour 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Family gathers around tables in front of the farmhouse.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a year of sheltering, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">retreating from contagious threats,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A world reopens to fill the vacancy of time lost.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the center of the yard, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a mighty pin oak weeps from a severed branch,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">secretions stain the trunk, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">spilling over its own roots, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lost in the dirt.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I place too much importance on what I feel.<\/span>\r\n \r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The fields are overgrown, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">waving in shallow winds,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">voluntary trees sprout up from the ocean of wild grass.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Low hanging limbs reach down, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">swaying just above drifting seedheads.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some liminal space hides in between the touching forestry.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I place too much importance on what I feel.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Missing family members who departed long ago or recently,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to travel upon those talking winds, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">carried over these fields at the end of day.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their presence is remembered, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">felt missing, I am reminded of their absence.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The trees mourn in unspoken throws, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the wind widens the vacancy with invisible fingers.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I place too much importance on what I feel.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Perhaps all of this is merely time passing, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">an awareness that everything is falling away.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Significance doesn't exist beyond the contemplations of my heart,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">there is no real resonance in nature, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">no imprinted mysteries, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">or ancestors whispering in the woods.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just the sorrows of gradually fading, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">surrendering to closing circles,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with bowed heads, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">silent in the essence of our surroundings,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and me placing importance on what I feel.<\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family gathers around tables in front of the farmhouse. 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