{"id":95481,"date":"2021-06-26T18:27:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95481"},"modified":"2021-06-27T09:39:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T13:39:39","slug":"late-bloomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/late-bloomers\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Bloomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Late Bloomers<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walnut trees stand, a solemn maze of empty branches,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">bloom buried in woody limbs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wedged between almond orchards,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">heady pink blossoms fueling spring fever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Humans &amp; insects dismiss these bare plantings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walnuts linger, hold winter vestiges like an old lover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Awkward tree, odd bloom cycle, produces stems, pinnated leaflets,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tenderly, hidden in leather husks, walnuts will grow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m reminded of my son\u2019s limbs, twisting wildly in space,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">struggles to move, to express himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quicker males, ones picked for teams<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">dart by, ignore simple words stumbling out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Perplexed, he finds a nearby swing to fly away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His journey, slow, experience, a talisman to pocket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Awkward adult, oddly blooming, navigates life with small steps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tenderly, hiding his scars, he too, will grow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 26, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late Bloomers &nbsp; Walnut trees stand, a solemn maze of empty branches,\u00a0 bloom buried in woody limbs. Wedged between almond orchards,\u00a0 heady pink blossoms fueling spring fever. Humans &amp; insects dismiss these bare plantings. Walnuts linger, hold winter vestiges like an old lover. Awkward tree,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95481","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\/3467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95481"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103232,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95481\/revisions\/103232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}