{"id":265,"date":"2018-04-25T09:20:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T17:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2018-04-26T10:47:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T18:47:42","slug":"the-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"The Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niki is really beginning to flourish as an artist at the young age of 10.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s really taken to photography &#8211; she received a compact point-and-shoot for Christmas, but prefers the larger SLR with the zoom lense. After returning from a 3 day trip to Utah for her XCel Regional Gymnastics competition she had taken nearly 700 pictures &#8211; some of which show she has an eye for photography by seeing things from a perspective which is not intuitive.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s also taken to poetry &#8211; she calls them stories but they really are amazing poems. She sat down and without hesitation or writers block wrote 2 poems which were just beautiful. Here they are (spelling hers :)).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Land and the Sea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The land hoverd with light as bright as the sun<br \/>\nwhile the animals creapt back home like a cheta hunting it&#8217;s pray<br \/>\nThe trees hushed the animals to sleep<br \/>\nwhile the wistiling wind sang with the trees<br \/>\nwhile the wavews made a druming sound<br \/>\nwhile the grass blew like a flut<br \/>\nwhile the moon shaderd light on the animals<br \/>\neverything sang<br \/>\nthe sand crunched like a soft moraka<br \/>\nthe land was full of sound<br \/>\nbuitiful sound<br \/>\nwhile the animals slept something happened under the water<br \/>\na whale and a shark fought<br \/>\nniping hurting<br \/>\nthe water was an ice cube<br \/>\nthe skin as a coat<br \/>\nthe eys like a eagle<br \/>\nwaching a fish tails waging<br \/>\nsoon both wher gone<br \/>\ngone in the light<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Buitiful Bear<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sun was a bright as a flashlight in the dark<br \/>\nthe trees skreamink with the wind like a babby crying<br \/>\nthe darkness was as dark as a black cat<br \/>\nthe fur was as soft as a wool coat<br \/>\nthe eys wher as buitiful as a birds song<br \/>\nthe claws were as sharp as a sharpend knife<br \/>\nthe legs wher as strond as a rock<br \/>\nthe heart was as warm as a fire fild with kindness<br \/>\nthe mity bear roared<br \/>\nhe stood on a rock as buitiful and sturdy like wood<br \/>\nhis ears wher as good as an owles<br \/>\nthe water was as if it was a lether mirror<br \/>\nthe sun pushed away the clouds filled with anger<br \/>\nand brought the sky full of love<br \/>\nthe love spreaded out as fast as lava running<br \/>\nthe bear wached the suns shimering sole fall into the lake<br \/>\nwhile the moons white face apered<br \/>\nthe wind picked up like a fire blowing<br \/>\nthe grass sang like a huming bird<br \/>\nthe &#8220;fires turned wood to ash&#8221;<br \/>\nthe snow fell<br \/>\nthe bear went into the cave<br \/>\nall quiet with no riot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niki is really beginning to flourish as an artist at the young age of 10. She&#8217;s really taken to photography &#8211; she received a compact point-and-shoot for Christmas, but prefers the larger SLR with the zoom lense. After returning from a 3 day trip to Utah for her XCel Regional Gymnastics competition she had taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}