{"id":143768,"date":"2023-09-03T08:38:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143768"},"modified":"2023-09-03T08:38:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:38:25","slug":"bless-the-day-i-would-learn-to-love-new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/bless-the-day-i-would-learn-to-love-new-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Bless the day I would learn to love new beginnings."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Bless the day I would learn to love new beginnings.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The day the thing in your body broke,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Someone with a strange face discovered the crack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The day you broke, the day you discovered you were<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The thing that broke, my then strong arm wasn\u2019t strong<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enough to hold this darkness against the thing<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Around your neck; this long chain of slavery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the days break, we would all bless the dawn<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">By forgetting all the wrong people that died with petals<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In their mouth; bless them; bless their names\u2014flowers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I bless god for the strong bone of surviving another<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Night but who do I tell I do not seek dawn that much?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who do I tell to teach my tongue to bless this twin<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daughter cell of exit wounds; this twin daughter of dawn,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who do I tell to pray for me?, that may this new dawn,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wash me clean like prayers wash my mother\u2019s feet\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like silence, slowly shifting this cracking dawn into exile.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bless the day I would learn to love new beginnings. \u00a0 The day the thing in your body broke, Someone with a strange face discovered the crack. The day you broke, the day you discovered you were The thing that broke, my then strong arm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143768","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\/5283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143776,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143768\/revisions\/143776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}