{"id":98042,"date":"2021-06-26T21:36:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98042"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:29:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:29:30","slug":"beautiful-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/beautiful-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Swan &#8211; Hour Thirteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful swan floating gracefully by<br \/>\nDancing softly like the winds of spring<br \/>\nYour joy and your candor, incredibly spry<br \/>\nThe weight of the world on your wing<br \/>\nYou pass by with ease and no cares in the sight<br \/>\nSo strong in your humility<br \/>\nFor though you are tired, your heart takes to flight<br \/>\nTo unburden fragility<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful swan swimming \u2018neath the night sky<br \/>\nEnlightened by the strawberry moon<br \/>\nYou never let a moment\u2019s grace pass you by<br \/>\nFor you know that all things could end soon<br \/>\nLife\u2019s few guarantees and so many regrets<br \/>\nCould leave your heart bitter and cold<br \/>\nBut instead you push onward, the safest of bets<br \/>\nBecause you\u2019re both brave and bold<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful swan I admire you so<br \/>\nI long for your quaint dignity<br \/>\nYour remarkable prowess through each ebb and flow<br \/>\nShall ever speak volumes to me<br \/>\nI long to be like you, more agile and free<br \/>\nPassing by with no cares to be seen<br \/>\nFor maybe one day, more like you, I will be<br \/>\nMore poised, hopeful and serene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful swan floating gracefully by Dancing softly like the winds of spring Your joy and your candor, incredibly spry The weight of the world on your wing You pass by with ease and no cares in the sight So strong in your humility For though&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[4101,4593,1806,3456,4590,4591,4592,392],"class_list":["post-98042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2021poetrymarathon","tag-ballet-poems","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz","tag-swan-lake","tag-swan-lake-poem","tag-swan-poems","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98042","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98073,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98042\/revisions\/98073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}