{"id":94417,"date":"2021-06-26T17:47:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94417"},"modified":"2021-07-12T15:57:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T19:57:38","slug":"small-miracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/small-miracles\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Miracles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>POEM 09<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sorrow like a giving up, took and washed me out. I was tired of uncertainty, I was sick of doubt..<\/p>\n<p>I went about humming trying not to despair. Fate so bitter as it is will find you anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>When did this take hold, in the midst of the night? Did it reach for my very soul and strangle hope&#8217;s bird of flight?<\/p>\n<p>Whose child am I whose sorrows are born again in me? Where next will my weary feet fall? What secret corner holds my destiny?<\/p>\n<p>In a stormy sea I stay adrift my sails are weather worn and smiling out to me, the shore where my misery was born.<\/p>\n<p>Then just as sudden as all this weight was cast, a lightness on the wind of time whispered. &#8220;this too shall past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then all the silver slant of rain, began to softly fall, it lost the chill of weariness of having no hope at all.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a miracle will show its sweet, fierce head and take the woe that snatched at you and leave its joy instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POEM 09 Sorrow like a giving up, took and washed me out. I was tired of uncertainty, I was sick of doubt.. I went about humming trying not to despair. Fate so bitter as it is will find you anywhere. When did this take hold,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94417","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\/3452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104375,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94417\/revisions\/104375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}