{"id":143944,"date":"2023-09-03T08:58:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143944"},"modified":"2023-09-03T09:06:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T13:06:08","slug":"the-memories-carried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-memories-carried\/","title":{"rendered":"The Memories Carried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Five<\/p>\n<p>Memories tucked into<br \/>\nmy breast pocket<br \/>\nleft and close to my heart<br \/>\nthey flutter like eyelids<br \/>\njust waking from slumber-<br \/>\nfractured images<br \/>\nplay upon the screen of consciousness<br \/>\na remembrance and tribute<br \/>\nto a life once lived<br \/>\nthe ancestors of self<br \/>\nthat passed away<br \/>\nby the alchemical chemicals<br \/>\nand compounded experience<br \/>\nof former selves in prior chapters.<br \/>\nI reach into the enclosure<br \/>\nrunning my fingers over their edges<br \/>\nflipping through the pages of life.<br \/>\nsome slip through fingers<br \/>\nlike ribbons<br \/>\nwhile others cling to<br \/>\nthe thread of emotion<br \/>\nslicing into my skin<br \/>\nthe salt of tears- an antiseptic<br \/>\ncleansing the sounds.<br \/>\nSome are moonlit passages bathed in shadows<br \/>\nthat circumvent the present-<br \/>\nI lift the camera lens of my eyes<br \/>\nand snap another memory<br \/>\nlike my fingers<br \/>\nas I mosey along, maintaining<br \/>\na rhythm of observation.<br \/>\nI tuck it in the rest<br \/>\nstuffing and threading the edges in<br \/>\nminding where I had come from<br \/>\nand just how far I&#8217;ve gone<br \/>\na moment of self that passes<br \/>\nfolded into memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 consciousness a remembrance and tribute to a life once lived the ancestors of self that passed&#8230;<\/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":[5772,5765,680,193,3019,2158,15,228,391,10,355,390,1084],"class_list":["post-143944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-193","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-full-marathon","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\/143944","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=143944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143973,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143944\/revisions\/143973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}