{"id":101923,"date":"2021-06-27T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101923"},"modified":"2021-06-27T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:32:09","slug":"poem-19-a-self-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-19-a-self-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 19 &#8211; A Self-Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am scattered and distraught piles of books not yet read<br \/>\nStacked like good intentions never fully realised<br \/>\nBut the thought at least counts even if the human doesn&#8217;t keep scores<br \/>\nAnd sometimes I wonder if it&#8217;s worth fighting for<br \/>\nStories that are yet to be explored, a ship kept ashore<br \/>\nClosed tales waiting to be shucked, yarns yet to be spun<br \/>\nWaiting to be cracked open and woven into a tapestry of wonderment<br \/>\nBrilliant in its construction; I am the potential within<br \/>\nThe stirred depths of unfathomable darkness, the murky water<br \/>\nStruggling to find my own clarity by sifting sands of time<br \/>\nThrough sinew-strand joined skin hung on bone, a meat vessel<br \/>\nFormed of chaos and the sublime with a side of lime and rhyme<br \/>\nI am the infinite moment of golden hour condense into a funky,<br \/>\nIf chunky, character, sharing care factors with friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am scattered and distraught piles of books not yet read Stacked like good intentions never fully realised But the thought at least counts even if the human doesn&#8217;t keep scores And sometimes I wonder if it&#8217;s worth fighting for Stories that are yet to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101923","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\/3485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102423,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101923\/revisions\/102423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}