{"id":507,"date":"2025-12-08T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:29:03","slug":"blade-of-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2025\/12\/08\/blade-of-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Blade of Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><em>A little mythology from one of my worlds. I hope you enjoy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first word spoken was a blade<br \/>\nIt cut the second and dawn was made<br \/>\nIn the rising light the truth unfurled<br \/>\nShowing what became the world.<\/p>\n<p>A world of silence, no voice yet sang<br \/>\nWhere all creation paused, listening.<br \/>\nIn the still there rose a song<br \/>\nFollowing the light of dawn.<\/p>\n<p>And to its vaunting melody<br \/>\nNew voices came in harmony.<br \/>\nFrom the song the First were born<br \/>\nAnd welcomed in that early morn.<\/p>\n<p>Tall and fair and strong as light<br \/>\nIn a world that knew no night<br \/>\nThey sang the sun into the sky<br \/>\nAnd turned to find their maker nigh.<\/p>\n<p>He walked with them and taught them well<br \/>\n(How great his sorrow when they fell!)<br \/>\nBut still the first word lingered on<br \/>\nAnd cut the sky with each dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Others yet would join them there<br \/>\nMortal souls laid raw and bare.<br \/>\nAnd so they taught their mortal kin<br \/>\nAll the ways that things begin.<\/p>\n<p>And while the world was fresh and new<br \/>\nTheir friendship flourish and grew.<br \/>\nThough the sundering world would come<br \/>\nFor these short ages all were home.<\/p>\n<p>And though that world has passed and gone<br \/>\nFair and mortal all souls press on<br \/>\nAnd though the breaking still brings pain<br \/>\nStill the first word cuts dawn again.<\/p>\n<p><em>Blade of Dawn<\/em> copyright \u00a9 Heather Strickler 2025 all rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little mythology from one of my worlds. I hope you enjoy. The first word spoken was a blade It cut the second and dawn was made In the rising light the truth unfurled Showing what became the world. A world of silence, no voice yet sang Where all creation paused, listening. In the still&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2025\/12\/08\/blade-of-dawn\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blade of Dawn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[12,23,16,11,17,25],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-writing","tag-hope","tag-light","tag-odd","tag-poetry","tag-story","tag-wonder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Blade-of-Dawn.jpg?fit=600%2C600","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parUcj-8b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":520,"url":"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2025\/12\/31\/the-watch-at-the-gate\/","url_meta":{"origin":507,"position":0},"title":"The Watch at the Gate","author":"Heather","date":"December 31, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"A bit of an adventure to close out the year. 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