{"id":134960,"date":"2023-09-02T18:11:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134960"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:11:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:11:39","slug":"hour-10-psych-ward-dragonflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-10-psych-ward-dragonflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 10: &#8220;Psych Ward Dragonflies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sterile white walls hide the maniacal sorrow,<br \/>\nFrame the wide windows facing nearby rooftops,<br \/>\nThrough these endless wells of pouring desire,<br \/>\nshe laughs and cries, looking at the same<br \/>\nfields disappearing in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>On mornings after the rain, shallow pools adorn the roof,<br \/>\nwhere dragonflies gaily dance from each sheening surface.<br \/>\nTheir tails entwined, skipping along the water. She cries.<br \/>\nShe cries. And the dragonflies dance.<br \/>\nHow sad it is to live for anything that blooms against the tide.<br \/>\nThe heavy veil that blankets all, disconnecting<br \/>\neverything that meant more than what it first appeared.<\/p>\n<p>How sad the synapses in her mind, growing weaker,<br \/>\nlike the eroding gravity of cerebral stars,<br \/>\nsenses can&#8217;t recall her best memories anymore,<br \/>\nthere is only the recognition that it&#8217;s slipping further away,<br \/>\njust like the dragonflies dancing from pool to pool,<br \/>\nwhile all the world is in its final act.<\/p>\n<p>How sad it is, as it all falls to emptiness.<br \/>\nThe mind, the universe,<br \/>\nthe universe within the mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sterile white walls hide the maniacal sorrow, Frame the wide windows facing nearby rooftops, Through these endless wells of pouring desire, she laughs and cries, looking at the same fields disappearing in the distance. On mornings after the rain, shallow pools adorn the roof, where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6070,5787],"class_list":["post-134960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-hour-10-2023","tag-2023-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134960","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134984,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134960\/revisions\/134984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}