{"id":95684,"date":"2021-06-26T19:02:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95684"},"modified":"2021-06-26T22:33:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:33:33","slug":"blitz-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/blitz-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Ten &#8211; Blitz Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Count your chickens<br \/>\nCount your eggs<br \/>\nEggs of potential<br \/>\nEggs of hope<br \/>\nHope in the future<br \/>\nHope to grow a family<br \/>\nFamily of freedom<br \/>\nFamily of reconciling<br \/>\nReconciling misunderstandings<br \/>\nReconciling brokenness<br \/>\nBrokenness of thin skin<br \/>\nBrokenness of pride<br \/>\nPride in perfection<br \/>\nPride in knowing<br \/>\nKnowing what it takes<br \/>\nKnowing when to give<br \/>\nGive a bundle of tears<br \/>\nGive a lifetime of change<br \/>\nChange to become better<br \/>\nChange to be new<br \/>\nNew not just what I do<br \/>\nNew inside&#8211;who I am<br \/>\nAm I on the road?<br \/>\nAm I the only one?<br \/>\nOne of these days<br \/>\nOne of these ways<br \/>\nWays of growing<br \/>\nWays to shine<br \/>\nShine in joy<br \/>\nShine in the light<br \/>\nLight of His countenance<br \/>\nLight of His grace<br \/>\nGrace to carry on<br \/>\nGrace to be whole<br \/>\nWhole and complete<br \/>\nWhole newness restored<br \/>\nRestored to life<br \/>\nRestored to collaborate<br \/>\nCollaborate for teamwork<br \/>\nCollaborate for justice<br \/>\nJustice to count loss<br \/>\nJustice to count costs<br \/>\nCosts of delaying truth<br \/>\nCost of sharing pain<br \/>\nPain of a soured world<br \/>\nPain of a shrouded grave<br \/>\nGrave that was overcome<br \/>\nGrave now full of life<br \/>\nEggs to chickens life<br \/>\nHatred overcome<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>From &#8220;Don&#8217;t count your chickens before they hatch.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\/write-better-poetry\/poetic-form-the-blitz-poem\">The Blitz form<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Count your chickens Count your eggs Eggs of potential Eggs of hope Hope in the future Hope to grow a family Family of freedom Family of reconciling Reconciling misunderstandings Reconciling brokenness Brokenness of thin skin Brokenness of pride Pride in perfection Pride in knowing Knowing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2523,169,4109,4288],"class_list":["post-95684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-blitz","tag-hour-10","tag-mrsdkrebs","tag-poem-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95684","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\/3549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95684"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98550,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95684\/revisions\/98550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}