{"id":128481,"date":"2023-09-02T10:55:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128481"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:58:05","slug":"someones-words-that-feels-like-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/someones-words-that-feels-like-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone’s words that feels like home"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Lately I\u2019ve been finding a lot of inspiration in the work of others.<\/em><\/p>\n

Often when I read a poem, there will be a line (or 5) that sounds spectacular and presents a really interesting idea, but then doesn\u2019t explore it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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When they talk about their inadequacy, I say “me too”, I feel it too<\/p>\n

When they talk about their imposter syndrome, I totally know how it feels- so, ” me too”<\/p>\n

So on days I want to trace my way home, I walk the path of their words<\/p>\n

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But they don’t describe this me that I know<\/p>\n

They dance around the feeling but do not touch my tears on sad nights<\/p>\n

Their hearts are not described to crumble and quake like mine does<\/p>\n

They stand at the bank of the rivers flowing<\/p>\n

But never enter it<\/p>\n

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“Lately I\u2019ve been finding a lot of inspiration in the work of others. Often when I read a poem, there will be a line (or 5) that sounds spectacular and presents a really interesting idea, but then doesn\u2019t explore it.”   When they talk about…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128481","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\/4575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128568,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128481\/revisions\/128568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}