{"id":90373,"date":"2021-06-26T12:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90373"},"modified":"2021-07-06T21:37:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T01:37:21","slug":"lightning-hour-4-half-marathon-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/lightning-hour-4-half-marathon-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning (Hour 4 &#8211; Half Marathon 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning<br \/>\n(Hour 4 &#8211; Half Marathon 2021)<\/p>\n<p>By David Hirsh<\/p>\n<p>However you conclude<br \/>\nWe will applaud<br \/>\nSome will stand<br \/>\nOthers will stay sitting<br \/>\nThe sound of your voice<br \/>\nCarries across the hall<br \/>\nBuilt for acoustic marvels<br \/>\nI, myself, am in awe<br \/>\nThis is the third time<br \/>\nI\u2019ve seen you recite<br \/>\nAnd each time<br \/>\nMy mind dwells<br \/>\nIn the words<br \/>\nI know so well<br \/>\nI wander around<br \/>\nWith you<br \/>\nOn your journey<br \/>\nThrough the cities<br \/>\nAnd the places where people dwell<br \/>\nAnd the forests<br \/>\nWhere trees, animals and forces of nature dwell<br \/>\nYou show photographs<br \/>\nFor those who need<br \/>\nVisual assistance<br \/>\nI prefer the words<br \/>\nThat dwell between the silence<br \/>\nThat live because you know how to hesitate<br \/>\nYou talk about how you were almost hit by lightning<br \/>\nAs a metaphor<br \/>\nAnd how you took long walks<br \/>\nTo avoid playing cards all night<br \/>\nYou were an avid loser at poker<br \/>\nAlthough you could read the other players<br \/>\nYou felt bad for them<br \/>\nYou weren\u2019t that kind of killer<br \/>\nYou would take a camera with you<br \/>\nAnd write about the pictures you took<br \/>\nAnd show those pictures as a slide<br \/>\nBut I would rather hear the silence<br \/>\nBetween the words<br \/>\nThan see what happened<br \/>\nTo the tree you hid under<br \/>\nTo avoid the rain<br \/>\nAfter it was hit by lightning<br \/>\nAnd continued to smoke in the fog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning (Hour 4 &#8211; Half Marathon 2021) By David Hirsh However you conclude We will applaud Some will stand Others will stay sitting The sound of your voice Carries across the hall Built for acoustic marvels I, myself, am in awe This is the third&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2879,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90373","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\/2879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104159,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90373\/revisions\/104159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}