like i assume many of us, ive been writing poetry for a while because it is there and because i love it. i am so excited for this kind of poem community and to see how craft changes once i… treat it like craft instead of like urge.<\/p>\n
here’s a poem from the practice my poetry half marathon compatriot (pumbrino!!) and i have been doing. mostly putting this here to prevent myself using it as a cheat.<\/p>\n
cant wait to read everyone’s work!<\/p>\n
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millennial<\/strong><\/p>\n i’ve got a voice, but like i assume many of us, ive been writing poetry for a while because it is there and because i love it. i am so excited for this kind of poem community and to see how craft changes once i… treat it like craft instead…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126086","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\/5315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126118,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126086\/revisions\/126118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nit\u2019s the voice of a child
\ndon\u2019t know what it wants but \u2013
\ni know it won’t stop
\ndo you think like this
\nstuck in what if, but
\nit cant be and was
\nnot likely \u2013 a wish
\na myth,
\nas if you could
\nbe, as if
\nwe knew at any point what it could be
\nto be, we\u2019re stuck
\nin our texts which is to say
\nyou\u2019re never where you are
\nare you, no you\u2019ve never been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"