{"id":100588,"date":"2021-06-27T03:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100588"},"modified":"2021-06-27T03:26:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:26:26","slug":"self-portrait-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/self-portrait-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between the blank pages of my journal my pen and sticky notes, half the day passes especially on a holiday<\/p>\n<p>Rising early from a deep slumber filled with my sweet dreams of honeycombs and candies<\/p>\n<p>Penning down my thoughts and words to inspire me to a beautiful smile from the face of the radiant sun<\/p>\n<p>Shining through my window leaving traces on my honey skin caressing my face softly<\/p>\n<p>An hour in the bathroom doing my business thinking on what to wear and how to hear it<\/p>\n<p>Wondering how the weather be, will it be raining or sunny? will it be windy or calming?<\/p>\n<p>And off I went skipping breakfast grabbing a cucumber taking the long bus dropping at a terminal strolling all the way<\/p>\n<p>For the little breeze that blows onto my face what a calming effect it is and slowly thinking on thoughts and building plans and making stories<\/p>\n<p>And listening to the soft song from the Frank Sinatra playlist nodding my head swinging,sliding, gliding my hands conductively<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time to work focus I tell myself to focus and slowly undoubtedly ready to face today&#8217;s business<\/p>\n<p>Before the sun starts to go down I work slowly checking the time trying to avoid the traffic skipping the long bus taking the fast bike to home<\/p>\n<p>Where my heart is and I&#8217;ve always have been a place of solitary confinement and mindful experience<\/p>\n<p>A quick lunch of my native swallow rich in carbohydrates and protein to prepare me for the evening before the sun goes down completely<\/p>\n<p>A friend calls another visit and we spoke into the night and drank slowly as we fed each other gists<\/p>\n<p>Bye she says to mark the end to the day unto my bed I crawled to get ready for the next day<\/p>\n<p>Another day to write to oblivion and to face the days and my other business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between the blank pages of my journal my pen and sticky notes, half the day passes especially on a holiday Rising early from a deep slumber filled with my sweet dreams of honeycombs and candies Penning down my thoughts and words to inspire me to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100746,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100588\/revisions\/100746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}