{"id":504,"date":"2025-12-05T19:30:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2025-12-05T19:30:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:30:55","slug":"unspin-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2025\/12\/05\/unspin-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Unspin the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><em>A bit of hope for your day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unspin the light into the sky.<br \/>\nRaise your voices far and nigh.<br \/>\nCup your hand to catch the dawn<br \/>\nAnd name your mem\u2019ry in a song.<\/p>\n<p>Hold your soul to reflect the day<br \/>\nA hope that will not pass away<br \/>\nEven though the night will come<br \/>\nThe reflection holds the steady thrum.<\/p>\n<p>A steady thrum of beating heart<br \/>\nThat holds to joy that won\u2019t depart.<br \/>\nThough sorrows come they cannot grow<br \/>\nThe light we hold will surly show<\/p>\n<p>And when the dawning day returns<br \/>\nOur hope with sunrise brightly burns.<br \/>\nWith lifted heads and hope to hand<br \/>\nName the living where e\u2019re they stand.<\/p>\n<p>Unspin the light into the sky<br \/>\nRaise your voices far and nigh.<br \/>\nThe dawn has come as long it must<br \/>\nAnd so our hope is held in trust.<\/p>\n<p><em>Unspin the Light<\/em> copyright \u00a9 Heather Strickler 2025 all rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of hope for your day. Unspin the light into the sky. Raise your voices far and nigh. Cup your hand to catch the dawn And name your mem\u2019ry in a song. Hold your soul to reflect the day A hope that will not pass away Even though the night will come The reflection&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2025\/12\/05\/unspin-the-light\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unspin the Light<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":505,"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_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":[27,12,23,20,11,25],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-writing","tag-chiaroscuro","tag-hope","tag-light","tag-mood","tag-poetry","tag-wonder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Unspin-the-Light.jpg?fit=600%2C600","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parUcj-88","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":507,"url":"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2025\/12\/08\/blade-of-dawn\/","url_meta":{"origin":504,"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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