{"id":19112,"date":"2016-08-13T11:36:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19112"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:36:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:36:54","slug":"poemno3-before-darkness-j-r-m-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poemno3-before-darkness-j-r-m-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"#PoemNo3   Before darkness- -j.r.m\u00a9 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>Before darkness<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>comes emptiness,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>echoing,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>calling out to my soul\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>reaching out<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>for my hands<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>grabbing them <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>and almost <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>pulling me under.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>I become numb<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>before I know it<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>I\u2019m swallowed whole<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>by emptiness and <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>spat out into <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>darkness. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19319\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hand-reaching-for-help_h-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"hand-reaching-for-help_h\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hand-reaching-for-help_h-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hand-reaching-for-help_h-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hand-reaching-for-help_h-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hand-reaching-for-help_h.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before darkness comes emptiness, echoing, calling out to my soul\u2026 reaching out for my hands grabbing them and almost pulling me under. I become numb before I know it I\u2019m swallowed whole by emptiness and spat out into darkness. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19112","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\/897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19326,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19112\/revisions\/19326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}