{"id":660,"date":"2026-11-09T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2026-11-09T12:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T18:15:28","slug":"hearth-rekindled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2026\/11\/09\/hearth-rekindled\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearth Rekindled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><em>A dwarven song about rebuilding.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Long the water under stone<br \/>\nLow the road to the lonely home<br \/>\nLost the door into the deep<br \/>\nWhere secrets lie an dangers sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Wake and come to op\u2019ning door.<br \/>\nWake and hear the ancient lore.<br \/>\nWake and rise to burning day<br \/>\nAnd watch the ashes drift away.<\/p>\n<p>Stone remembers deep in time<br \/>\nThrough burning ages and ancient rhyme<br \/>\nWake from slumber and dreaming deep<br \/>\nCome alive the oath to keep.<\/p>\n<p>Now echoes ring in living halls<br \/>\nAnd voices sing within the walls,<br \/>\nYet past the gate the list\u2019ning foe<br \/>\nHoards his strength and lurks below.<\/p>\n<p>So kith and kin gather round<br \/>\nAnd waking hope now has been found.<br \/>\nThe lonely home, alone no more<br \/>\nRings bright with laughter as days of yore.<\/p>\n<p>Stone remembers deep in time<br \/>\nThrough burning ages and ancient rhyme<br \/>\nWake from slumber and dreaming deep<br \/>\nCome alive your kindred greet.<\/p>\n<p>Though the foe returns to burning day<br \/>\nKith and kin now bar his way.<br \/>\nThe flames of battle come and go<br \/>\nBut the hearth will ever glow.<\/p>\n<p>Though pain and grief from battle come,<br \/>\nHearth and home mark battles won.<br \/>\nIn the hall is laid the feast<br \/>\nWhere battered souls may find their peace.<\/p>\n<p>Stone remembers deep in time<br \/>\nThrough burning ages and ancient rhyme<br \/>\nWake from slumber and dreaming deep<br \/>\nCome alive your hope to meet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hearth Rekindled<\/em> copyright \u00a9 Heather Strickler 2026 all rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dwarven song about rebuilding. Long the water under stone Low the road to the lonely home Lost the door into the deep Where secrets lie an dangers sleep. Wake and come to op\u2019ning door. Wake and hear the ancient lore. Wake and rise to burning day And watch the ashes drift away. Stone remembers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2026\/11\/09\/hearth-rekindled\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hearth Rekindled<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":661,"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":[27,29,12,23,20,11],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-writing","tag-chiaroscuro","tag-family","tag-hope","tag-light","tag-mood","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parUcj-aE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":627,"url":"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2026\/10\/23\/waking-echoes\/","url_meta":{"origin":660,"position":0},"title":"Waking Echoes","author":"Heather","date":"October 23, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Have a mystery dwarf. 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