{"id":98022,"date":"2021-06-26T21:43:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98022"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:43:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:43:28","slug":"hour-thirteen-you-came-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-thirteen-you-came-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Thirteen ~ You Came Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Text Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Write a poem where death is personified in some way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217; Death, You Came for me<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><i>you came before and lifted me quietly,<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><i>I felt the pull<br \/>\nI saw my self flying straight up high<br \/>\nit was so swift,the flight<br \/>\na few seconds and I looked down<br \/>\noh where are you taking me?<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><i>my children are so young<br \/>\nand my parents are in later age<br \/>\nthey need me too<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><i><br \/>\nsee\u00a0 they are alone,<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>And O Death you were so kind<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>You let me go&#8217;<br \/>\nYou had permission to do that<br \/>\nand I heard you say something&#8217; ?<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>Now if I have been good<br \/>\nhave looked after my parents<br \/>\nand have guided my children<br \/>\non the straight path<br \/>\nI hope and pray that<br \/>\nmy way, will be illumined<br \/>\neach\u00a0 day of life ,scented<br \/>\ncolorful like daisies.<br \/>\nO Death you will be gentle.<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text Prompt Write a poem where death is personified in some way. &nbsp; O&#8217; Death, You Came for me you came before and lifted me quietly, I felt the pull I saw my self flying straight up high it was so swift,the flight a few&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3882,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2114,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98022","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\/3882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98114,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98022\/revisions\/98114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}