{"id":1119,"date":"2022-04-08T14:13:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2022-04-08T14:13:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:13:56","slug":"primavera-imperatives-by-molly-stover-2022-april-poetry-contest-1st-place-poem-for-prompt-1-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/2022\/04\/08\/primavera-imperatives-by-molly-stover-2022-april-poetry-contest-1st-place-poem-for-prompt-1-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Primavera Imperatives by Molly Stover (2022 April Poetry Contest: 1st Place Poem for Prompt 1 &#8211; Spring)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wear the worn ones that are well-loved and grass-stained. Care for the worms as the rains have left them unearthed. Be gentle with all but the mud as you reacquaint yourself with a long-awaited rebirth. Remember the guileless child with eyes wonder-wide. Listen to the new birds sing days-old, age-old songs. Turn your face to the sun but don\u2019t stare. It isn\u2019t polite &#8211; to Iris or Helios. Bless the heavens, above and below, for the mystery of what\u2019s suspended between and what grows the first green from the yester-grays. Cast lots on the first blooms. Mind the too-soons. Pan\u2019s Syringa, below and among, now within mortal reach. Gather her spoils with mud-bathed, newly-earthen hands. Sing your days-old, age-old refrains. Draw them out. Sustaining refrains are meant for spring. Love the living things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wear the worn ones that are well-loved and grass-stained. Care for the worms as the rains have left them unearthed. Be gentle with all but the mud as you reacquaint yourself with a long-awaited rebirth. Remember the guileless child with eyes wonder-wide. Listen to the new birds sing days-old, age-old songs. Turn your face to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":515,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[281390,294808,294812,294813],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1stplace","tag-294808","tag-aprilpoetrycontest","tag-spring"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}