{"id":91892,"date":"2021-06-26T15:27:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91892"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:27:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:27:46","slug":"go-where-the-words-take-you-half-marathon-hour-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/go-where-the-words-take-you-half-marathon-hour-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Where The Words Take You  (Half Marathon Hour  7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michellia Wilson<br \/>\nPoetry Marathon Hour 7 (2021)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>GO WHERE THE WORDS TAKE YOU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>if you see them dangling \u2013<br \/>\ngrab them,<br \/>\npull them to safety;<\/p>\n<p>if you see them laying on the floor,<br \/>\nfragile, broken,<br \/>\ngently pick up the pieces;<\/p>\n<p>if they slice your flesh,<br \/>\nlet the wounds bleed,<br \/>\nto cleanse and purify;<\/p>\n<p>if you find them<br \/>\nscattered in the palms of your hands,<br \/>\nlet them play;<\/p>\n<p>if they tip toe in your sleep,<br \/>\nfor in your dreams,<br \/>\nlet them be and just go where the words take you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michellia Wilson Poetry Marathon Hour 7 (2021) &nbsp; GO WHERE THE WORDS TAKE YOU if you see them dangling \u2013 grab them, pull them to safety; if you see them laying on the floor, fragile, broken, gently pick up the pieces; if they slice your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91892","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=91892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93043,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91892\/revisions\/93043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}