{"id":460,"date":"2025-10-15T13:06:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:06:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:06:49","slug":"coming-of-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2025\/10\/15\/coming-of-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming of Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><em>A bit more of a hopeful one than has come to me lately. I hope you enjoy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Out of the black woods comes the sun<br \/>\nThe night is over the day begun.<br \/>\nThe battle fought to victory<br \/>\nA time of mourning then joy will be.<\/p>\n<p>The ash tree sheds a steady light<br \/>\nThrough forest gloom and black of night<br \/>\nThough deadly danger lingers on<br \/>\nThe morning comes: behold the dawn!<\/p>\n<p>To a world battered and torn<br \/>\nThe light brings hope of life reborn<br \/>\nThough sorrow brings tears like falling rain<br \/>\nThe future will rise to live again.<\/p>\n<p>Though the shadows stand dark and deep<br \/>\nThe guardians neither flee nor sleep.<br \/>\nIn the light of the silver ash<br \/>\nThey guide the future and guard the past.<\/p>\n<p>So do not fear the break of day<br \/>\nThough evil has not passed away<br \/>\nOut of the black woods comes the sun,<br \/>\nAnd building the future has only begun.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming of Dawn<\/em> copyright \u00a9 Heather Strickler 2025 all rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit more of a hopeful one than has come to me lately. I hope you enjoy. Out of the black woods comes the sun The night is over the day begun. The battle fought to victory A time of mourning then joy will be. The ash tree sheds a steady light Through forest gloom&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2025\/10\/15\/coming-of-dawn\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coming of Dawn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[12,23,20,11,25],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-writing","tag-hope","tag-light","tag-mood","tag-poetry","tag-wonder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parUcj-7q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":507,"url":"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2025\/12\/08\/blade-of-dawn\/","url_meta":{"origin":460,"position":0},"title":"Blade of Dawn","author":"Heather","date":"December 8, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"A little mythology from one of my worlds. 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