{"id":144488,"date":"2023-09-03T21:49:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T01:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=144488"},"modified":"2023-09-03T21:57:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T01:57:56","slug":"memories-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/memories-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Five (This one shows up on my profile before the end of the marathon but for some reason doesn&#8217;t show up on my activity feed. Is strange. Here is the screenshot of the original posting. Not sure what I fouled up on in posting the original) <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20230903-215414-132x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-144500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20230903-215414-132x300.png 132w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20230903-215414-450x1024.png 450w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20230903-215414-768x1749.png 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20230903-215414-674x1536.png 674w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20230903-215414-899x2048.png 899w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_20230903-215414.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/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 thought<br \/>\na remembrance and tribute<br \/>\nto a life once lived<br \/>\nby previous lives-<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 out and touch a few<br \/>\nGrazing my fingertips over their edges<br \/>\nflipping through the pages of my life.<br \/>\nSome slip through fingers like ribbon<br \/>\nwhile others catch themselves upon<br \/>\nthe thread of emotion<br \/>\nand slice I to my skin.<br \/>\nThe salt of tears cleansing the wounds.<br \/>\nSome are moonlit passages<br \/>\nbathed 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 with the rest<br \/>\nsealing and stamping the edges in<br \/>\nminding where I come from<br \/>\nand just how far I&#8217;ve gone.<br \/>\nA moment of self that passes<br \/>\nthen folded into memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Five (This one shows up on my profile before the end of the marathon but for some reason doesn&#8217;t show up on my activity feed. Is strange. Here is the screenshot of the original posting. Not sure what I fouled up on in posting&#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":[5772,5765,680,193,3019,2158,326,15,228,391,10,355,390,1084],"class_list":["post-144488","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-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\/144488","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=144488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144501,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144488\/revisions\/144501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}