{"id":17105,"date":"2023-02-16T19:03:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T00:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=17105"},"modified":"2023-02-16T19:03:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T00:03:24","slug":"sonnet-dying-ember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=17105","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet: Dying Ember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/theoriapress.substack.com\/\"><strong>Max Leyf<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Dying Ember<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"rightbox\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Leyf_DyingEmber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Leyf_DyingEmber-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>A dying ember swallowed up by grey<br \/>\nA swansong born on golden pinions bright<br \/>\nIs sung the solemn psalm of fateful night<br \/>\nOf the hero who had held our plight at bay,<\/p>\n<p>Who with single hand had mastered Winter\u2019s sway<br \/>\nNow fallen with the fading of the light<br \/>\nA shadow only of his onetime might<br \/>\nAn echo only of the glorious day<\/p>\n<p>A fading echo, yet I will take it in<br \/>\nAnd like a secret, I will guard and tend<br \/>\nThis kernel whence the age to come begins.<\/p>\n<p>Forth its leaves and golden boughs to send \u2014<br \/>\nI know the secret: the god shall rise again<br \/>\nWhose reign shall last until the world\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-17105-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Leyf_AudioDyingEmber.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Leyf_AudioDyingEmber.m4a\">https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Leyf_AudioDyingEmber.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Max Leyf Dying Ember A dying ember swallowed up by grey A swansong born on golden pinions bright Is sung the solemn psalm of fateful night Of the hero who had held our plight at bay, Who with single hand had mastered Winter\u2019s sway Now fallen with the fading &hellip; <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=17105\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17105","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\/17105","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=17105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17109,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17105\/revisions\/17109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}