{"id":90386,"date":"2021-06-26T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90386"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:26:01","slug":"does-it-scare-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/does-it-scare-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Does It Scare You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Does it scare you? <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">When you walk in skirts<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Revealing more than they hide<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Flapping and Flying<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Showing dainty lace and ribbon?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Does it scare you? <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">When you talk to a stranger<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">His eyes sleek and smooth<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And tongue silver and smooth<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Hands smoothing your bare skin?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Does it scare you? <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">When they say to be timid<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Tender and lovely and innocent<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Draped in flowers, bathed in moonlight<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Skin a rippling shade of gold?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>It wouldn\u2019t <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For he never felt the bloody wetness<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Or tasted it\u2019s coppery tint<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Never strayed where I needed him<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Or knew the prick of my petals<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The boil of my moonglade<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Rippling in ribbons of shame.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does it scare you? When you walk in skirts Revealing more than they hide Flapping and Flying Showing dainty lace and ribbon? Does it scare you? When you talk to a stranger His eyes sleek and smooth And tongue silver and smooth Hands smoothing your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90386","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\/1596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90425,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90386\/revisions\/90425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}