{"id":12012,"date":"2022-08-16T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=12012"},"modified":"2022-08-12T19:38:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T02:38:49","slug":"herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/herald\/","title":{"rendered":"Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer\u2019s voice on the page.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herald<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Su Shafer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all these years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\u2019s letting go<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No more worrying<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If she\u2019s too fat<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or too old<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or what he\u2019s thinking<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or feeling<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or if he\u2019s alive or dead<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No more waiting<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the rock to roll<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hope when it moved a little<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But found a new dead end to be still<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So she\u2019s letting go<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dropping the over-packed luggage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She carried with both hands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For so long<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her arms feel like wings<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As she walks in the sun<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her steps so light, she might take flight<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On her way to the mailbox<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She sees a golden jewel beetle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resting on the sidewalk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A living gem that stuns her breathless<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spreading amber wings, it lifts effortlessly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Into the air and buzzes regally away<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes messengers are more beautiful<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Than you can imagine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She closes her eyes and takes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A deep, deep breath<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has the air ever been so fresh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Su Shafer<\/strong> is a creative crafter, fabricating bits of writing in poetry and short stories, and other bits into characters that appear in paintings or sit on various bookshelves and coffee tables. She lives in a cottage on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, where the tea kettle is always whistling and the biscuits freshly baked.  One never knows who might stop by to share a rainy afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer\u2019s voice on the page. Herald By Su Shafer After all these years She\u2019s letting go No more worrying If she\u2019s too fat Or too old Or what he\u2019s thinking Or feeling Or if he\u2019s alive or dead No more waiting For the rock to roll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1474],"tags":[1543,329,1179],"class_list":["post-12012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sparks","tag-su-shafer","tag-the-write-spot","tag-writing-prompts-just-write-writing-freely-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s43Dj8-herald","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12013,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012\/revisions\/12013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}