{"id":138710218,"date":"2023-11-08T20:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T20:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=138710218"},"modified":"2023-11-08T20:35:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T20:35:01","slug":"the-illuminating-spark-turning-toward-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=138710218","title":{"rendered":"The Illuminating Spark: Turning Toward the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A poem inspired by my Samhain reading.<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/b247ec23-0cfb-4a41-9f16-7af88a9dae00_5760x3840.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><p>(Image description: A photo of a river that is lined by gray rocks of different sizes and shapes. Green trees are seen near the river on both sides.) Credit: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@kazuend?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">kazuend<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/body-river-surrounded-by-dress-cCthPLHmrzI?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Turning Toward the Earth<\/h3><p>I turn toward the Earth,<\/p><p>damp soil meeting my shoes<\/p><p>and young grass in the making.<\/p><p>Where blood and bone and ash rest<\/p><p>there is a river, \u2018tween the realms<\/p><p>the flow of time hitting the shores.<\/p><p>Days, weeks, months<\/p><p>currents in the flow<\/p><p>of how long it\u2019s been since<\/p><p>I\u2019ve seen you,<\/p><p>spoke with you,<\/p><p>hugged you.<\/p><p>Small traces of you<\/p><p>catch my eyes, here and there,<\/p><p>as faint calls in the wind.<\/p><p>This is the start<\/p><p>of our bond<\/p><p>in the place of not-here<\/p><p>but in the place of being-there.<\/p><p>A time of birth pangs<\/p><p>in grief and poetry,<\/p><p>of learning and love.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem inspired by my Samhain reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138710218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138710218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138710218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138710218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138710218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138710218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138710218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}