{"id":142915,"date":"2023-09-03T07:26:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=142915"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:26:13","slug":"my-illusive-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/my-illusive-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"My Illusive Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My elusive dreams<\/p>\n<p>Stay funky*<br \/>\nEven in the hours of dream<br \/>\nI am staid,<br \/>\nproper, afraid of what<br \/>\nis outside of my zone of solitude.<br \/>\nI wish I was edgy but manage<br \/>\njust a snitch of snark.<\/p>\n<p>Earth to Asgard**<\/p>\n<p>If the gods are crazy what does that make humans that became sheep to follow blindly becoming humans that leap<br \/>\nor maybe not leap into the category of lunacy?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t play with shadows***<br \/>\nCome in it&#8217;s dark.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m tired I flirt with the night<br \/>\nin my pretend goth stage<br \/>\nbut<br \/>\nmy body lies<br \/>\nmy cicadia rhythm<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s inside me<br \/>\nleaving before the twilight ends<br \/>\nand the shadows of deep night<br \/>\noverwhelms the space of my safety.<\/p>\n<p>Nocturne****<br \/>\nSoon my night move is a nocturne lullaby<br \/>\nsuited just for me<br \/>\nand a soft dip into pages<br \/>\nbefore slumber<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by<br \/>\n*Photo by Clark van der Beken<br \/>\n**Earth to Azgard Partick Doyle<br \/>\n***Playing with shadows David Franklin<br \/>\n****Nocturne Jiang Xiao Qing<br \/>\nAll music instrumental<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My elusive dreams Stay funky* Even in the hours of dream I am staid, proper, afraid of what is outside of my zone of solitude. I wish I was edgy but manage just a snitch of snark. Earth to Asgard** If the gods are crazy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142915","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\/3817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142923,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142915\/revisions\/142923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}