Hour Five<\/p>\n
Memories tucked into
\nmy breast pocket
\nleft and close to my heart.
\nThey flutter like eyelids
\njust waking from slumber-
\nfractured images
\nplay upon the screen of thought
\na tribute to remembrance
\nto lives previously lived
\nduring my years on the back roads.
\nThe gravel of experience
\nkicking up rocks
\nand dusty clouds as I move forward.
\nThe ancestors of self
\npassed away by the alchemical chemicals
\nof compounded experience
\nof former versions in former chapters.
\nI reach out and touch a few
\nrunning my fingers across their edges
\nflipping through the pages of life
\nlike ribbons
\nwhile others catch up on the hem of
\nemotions and slice into my skin;
\nthe salt of tears an anesthesia
\nto the wistful recollections of
\nthe hourglass
\nwhose sand had run it’s last cascade.
\nSome are moonlit passages
\nbathed in shadows and blurred vision
\nthat had circumvented the stony path.
\nI lift the camera lens of my eyes
\nand snap another memory
\nlike fingers-a metronome of observation
\nin my rhythm of living.
\nI tuck it in with the rest
\nsealing and threading the edges in,
\nminding where I had come from
\nand just how far I’ve gone-
\njust another moment of self captured
\nand folded into the realms of memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hour Five Memories tucked into my breast pocket left and close to my heart. They flutter like eyelids just waking from slumber- fractured images play upon the screen of thought a tribute to remembrance to lives previously lived during my years on the back roads….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5772,680,193,3019,2158,23,15,228,391,10,355,390,1084],"class_list":["post-131639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-193","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-full-marathon","tag-life","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-writer","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131639","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\/1485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132132,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131639\/revisions\/132132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}