{"id":98304,"date":"2021-06-26T22:06:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98304"},"modified":"2021-06-26T22:06:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:06:33","slug":"death-watches-the-deads-grieving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/death-watches-the-deads-grieving\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Watches the Deads Grieving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>I was still mourning my mother when death visited again.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He wanted to make my grief into a sentence, complex<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">for me, a lover of simple words.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ugly man &#8211;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It is proper for an ugly man to have a beautiful heart.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a dungeon of tears, you will see me bare,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">with deads like me, still wearing a skin, sharing my grief.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Same spot. Check back tomorrow,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I swear, you&#8217;ll see me learning an elegy to sing for your end.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Brethren, grief not with me anymore.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Do not make this ugly man laugh at you yet.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He&#8217;s watching, not knowing he&#8217;s a citizen of a gone world.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Watch God kills him like he did to his prophets.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was still mourning my mother when death visited again. He wanted to make my grief into a sentence, complex for me, a lover of simple words. Ugly man &#8211; It is proper for an ugly man to have a beautiful heart. In a dungeon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98304","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\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98313,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98304\/revisions\/98313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}