{"id":17039,"date":"2023-01-19T21:44:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T02:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=17039"},"modified":"2023-01-19T21:44:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T02:44:26","slug":"sonnet-nocturne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=17039","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet: Nocturne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <strong>Mike M.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Nocturne<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Nocturne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Nocturne-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Nocturne-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Nocturne-90x135.jpg 90w, https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Nocturne.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCrust covered, creaky feet, marching on twigs.<br \/>\nI gaze at the moon. Owls cry, none are seen.<br \/>\nSome stay \u2018round the fire. Logs snap and scream.<br \/>\nI recall home, only the snout of pigs.<\/p>\n<p>Seated, silent. All falls off in one glance.<br \/>\nOrion ambulates above. What can<br \/>\nI do with this life? Not one thing. What plan<br \/>\nDoes man carry through infinite expanse?<\/p>\n<p>Children joyfully toss \u2018round the divine.<br \/>\nI join them knowing all the rules. Before<br \/>\nOne mote of dust is the rose scent divine.<\/p>\n<p>Rest now, your work boots have fallen apart.<br \/>\nYou are never without. There is no lack.<br \/>\nMake it a comedy, make it your art.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-17039-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Nocturne.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Nocturne.mp3\">https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Nocturne.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonnet challenge: Nocturne <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=17039\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17044,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039\/revisions\/17044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}