Words like rest, relaxation, recreation sprang to mind. But after watering wilting houseplants and venturing out into a light rain for lunch, now sitting here listening to the steady, rhythmic, head-pounding percussion of droplets against the metal chimney, the word “renewal” elbowed its way to into my forehead.<\/p>\n
“Stop knocking,” I moaned. Some of the pain stems from the fact that I whacked my head on the doorframe of my car last night after a nice, long walk in the park with a friend. Exercise is good. Drinking water during a hike is important. Being able to bend my body low enough to miss the doorframe and not give myself a concussion, complete with tweety birds? That would’ve been amazing.<\/p>\n
Well, one out of three goals accomplished – five miles down. As for the concussion? Who knows – I – I woke up this morning so I’m going to call that a win.<\/p>\n
I told Erin Penn<\/a> I was going to quote her, and this seems an appropriate time:<\/p>\n “If you eat 100% of the grain, there is nothing to plant for the next harvest. Keep something back so you can grow.”<\/p>\n Today’s prompts include “high\/low” and the words:<\/p>\n I have taken Erin’s advice and held a bit in reserve for later.<\/p>\n What are the highs and lows of your week, so far? Does “recreation” require destruction? Does “rebirth” require death? Do opposites attract or repel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137991098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":{"highlight_sharing":"default","image_sharing":"default","headline_sharing":"default"},"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[2717,2716,2788,2787,2779,2725,2772,2792,2728],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-137991035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-writing","tag-a2zchallenge","tag-atozchallenge","tag-pad","tag-poem-a-day","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-poets-northwest","tag-stafford-challenge"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 08:09:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137991035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137991035"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137991035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137991102,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137991035\/revisions\/137991102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137991098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137991035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137991035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137991035"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=137991035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Never the Twain Shall Meet<\/h2>\n
Apex and nadir, entities\r\nisolated, suspended\r\nwithin the teeming middle ground\r\nof average, ordinary\r\nmediocrity\u2014rendered\r\ntoothless and benign.\r\nMatter, antimatter\u2014light\r\nat the speed of darkness\u2014\r\nopposites attract. Membranous\r\nmuscled center shrinks,\r\nsquished.\r\n Shapeless.\r\n\r\n Safe.<\/pre>\n
Other National Poetry Month Posts<\/h2>\n
Your Turn!<\/h2>\n
\nDo you think opposites attract or drive each other farther apart?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"