(for hour 16\u2014from the \u201ctouch\u201d prompt for Onweald)<\/p>\n
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I Thought I Touched You Today<\/strong><\/p>\n (by the character Nigel Taiman)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A kind touch breezing by my hand<\/p>\n Reminded me of you today<\/p>\n A soft voice whisp\u2019ring a word of kindness<\/p>\n Sounded like something you\u2019d say<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The moment caught me off my guard<\/p>\n When I turned to see your face<\/p>\n Disappointment filled me so fully<\/p>\n When I saw emptiness in your place<\/p>\n <\/p>\n That I excused myself from society<\/p>\n How can you haunt my brain<\/p>\n When you wore immortality as perfectly<\/p>\n As you wore Arcana\u2019s good name<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The swing where you once teased me<\/p>\n With noxious words of battle and war<\/p>\n Moves heavy with dead autumn leaves<\/p>\n Or memory of your movement as we\u2019d spar<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The tree where I handed you music papers<\/p>\n Withers in despair of your absence<\/p>\n There\u2019s not a creature in Onweald<\/p>\n That doesn\u2019t crave your presence<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Every person, beast, every dying bloom<\/p>\n Seeks you in the fingers of the wind<\/p>\n And each breeze that lifts your scent<\/p>\n Fools me to thinking I\u2019ll see you again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (for hour 16\u2014from the \u201ctouch\u201d prompt for Onweald) I Thought I Touched You Today (by the character Nigel Taiman) A kind touch breezing by my hand Reminded me of you today A soft voice whisp\u2019ring a word of kindness Sounded like something you\u2019d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[3019,945,3999,3648],"class_list":["post-99292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-hour-16-prompt","tag-onweald","tag-sensory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99292","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\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99299,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99292\/revisions\/99299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}