{"id":142517,"date":"2023-09-03T06:48:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T10:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=142517"},"modified":"2023-09-03T06:48:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T10:48:21","slug":"poem-22-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/poem-22-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sllllooooooooowww<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Never once feeling like not one<\/span><\/p>\n

Thing not two things<\/span><\/p>\n

But to the very definition\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Absolute<\/span><\/i> in number and in sum<\/span><\/p>\n

nothing\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Zero<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It was the amnesia of ever<\/span><\/p>\n

Existing<\/span><\/p>\n

Forgetting what shape my matter<\/span><\/p>\n

Liked to take form<\/span><\/p>\n

Collecting my mass from the palm<\/span><\/p>\n

Of my hand to the nape of my neck<\/span><\/p>\n

Just to remember the sheer will it\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

takes to move a breathing body<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It’s the readings done on the\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Paleozoic Era and letting<\/span><\/p>\n

The wild slithering, creeping, crawling<\/span><\/p>\n

majestic creatures, rule your mind\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For a respite in time.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Pondering how they had their moment<\/span><\/p>\n

And wondering if this is how they feel<\/span><\/p>\n

To be ancient and long gone<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sllllooooooooowww Never once feeling like not one Thing not two things But to the very definition\u00a0 Absolute in number and in sum nothing\u00a0 Zero   It was the amnesia of ever Existing Forgetting what shape my matter Liked to take form Collecting my mass from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142517","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\/5300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142537,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142517\/revisions\/142537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}