{"id":98345,"date":"2021-06-26T22:50:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98345"},"modified":"2021-06-26T22:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:50:35","slug":"drowning-hour-13-a-somanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/drowning-hour-13-a-somanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Drowning (Hour 13, A Somanka)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98658\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/drowning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>I never meant to\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>hurt you. Drowning in despair,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>I let your hand go,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>but only for a moment<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>while I fought to save myself.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\"><strong>If you love me, tell<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\"><strong>me, why was it so easy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\"><strong>to give up on me?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\"><strong>Was I not worth saving too?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\"><strong>You know I&#8217;d never leave you.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(A somanka is a combination of two tankas written in two different voices that carries a central theme of love. Each tanka is comprised of five lines with a syllable count of 5\/7\/5\/7\/7.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never meant to\u00a0 hurt you. Drowning in despair, I let your hand go, but only for a moment while I fought to save myself. &nbsp; If you love me, tell me, why was it so easy to give up on me?\u00a0 Was I not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98345","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\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98664,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98345\/revisions\/98664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}