{"id":92572,"date":"2021-06-26T14:56:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92572"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:47:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:47:45","slug":"hour-6-walking-without-using-the-word-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-6-walking-without-using-the-word-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour #6 (Walking without using the word walking)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airborne-<\/p>\n<p>My legs at first are propellers,<\/p>\n<p>old school and a bit rusty,<\/p>\n<p>needing a good swing to get started.<\/p>\n<p>Each step is an intention<\/p>\n<p>and a decision\u2014or not,<\/p>\n<p>if I go only where my legs take me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They have their own destination<\/p>\n<p>in conflict with my staid plans.<\/p>\n<p>They expand where I want to retract<\/p>\n<p>and suddenly I am aloft,<\/p>\n<p>my legs become jet engines<\/p>\n<p>roaring with anticipation,<\/p>\n<p>seeking the adventure I too often resist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They are the masters of these marches,<\/p>\n<p>lifting and striding of their own accord<\/p>\n<p>moving me through streets familiar and foreign<\/p>\n<p>my engine\u2019s contrails marking the journey<\/p>\n<p>and beating the pavements to a pulp.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When at last, in an act of defiance against them,<\/p>\n<p>I feel the weight of the air too heavy<\/p>\n<p>to maintain flight<\/p>\n<p>and descent is imminent,<\/p>\n<p>these marvelous appendages<\/p>\n<p>regain their altitude<\/p>\n<p>and I continue to soar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airborne- My legs at first are propellers, old school and a bit rusty, needing a good swing to get started. Each step is an intention and a decision\u2014or not, if I go only where my legs take me. &nbsp; They have their own destination in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92572","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\/959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92589,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92572\/revisions\/92589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}