{"id":1575,"date":"2014-08-23T11:09:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T15:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2014-08-23T11:10:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T15:10:31","slug":"my-secret-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/my-secret-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"my secret lover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my secret lover<\/p>\n<p>his morning song can consume me-<\/p>\n<p>dark blossom bouquet that burns through<\/p>\n<p>these dry cracks<\/p>\n<p>showers off my dirt<\/p>\n<p>makes me whole again;<\/p>\n<p>able to run in the meadow-<\/p>\n<p>when i close my eyes i can smell you<\/p>\n<p>blowing in the wind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>quiet still thoughts sap my strength<\/p>\n<p>hold me hostage to this sweet inner peace.<\/p>\n<p>secret passions burning<\/p>\n<p>looking for a place to call home-<\/p>\n<p>his constant fire brands me his-<\/p>\n<p>the endless refrain that plays out<\/p>\n<p>a song with words that only we can sing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>my secret lover<\/p>\n<p>always new, yet still the same<\/p>\n<p>sweet voice and soul and smile unchanged;<\/p>\n<p>the careless whisper that i long to hear<\/p>\n<p>sends out his muted signals for me to get<\/p>\n<p>and i wait with baited breath for the call;<\/p>\n<p>the quiet plea to the place<\/p>\n<p>where i discover what love should be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my secret lover his morning song can consume me- dark blossom bouquet that burns through these dry cracks showers off my dirt makes me whole again; able to run in the meadow- when i close my eyes i can smell you blowing in the wind&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}