{"id":22021,"date":"2016-08-13T16:02:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22021"},"modified":"2016-08-13T23:54:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:54:05","slug":"when-night-descends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/when-night-descends\/","title":{"rendered":"When Night Descends"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Rain melts the twilight sky as cresting waves pound the shoreline.<br \/>\nWind lift me up, let me swim in the Milky Way &#8211;<br \/>\nits raspberry sweetness on my tongue,\u00a0as dreams pass this dreamer by.<br \/>\nI caress the stars above, kiss the moon with tender lips,<br \/>\nand bathe in its silver luminescence.<br \/>\nThe warmth of your hands cocoon my soul,<br \/>\nas I dream of the one smiling back at me.<br \/>\nDip me in your pools of beauty, remove my flesh &#8211;<br \/>\nmy crimson silk as sweet as liquid gold.<br \/>\nWhisper my name, and I will hear you.<br \/>\nReach for you, and I will feel you.<br \/>\nLinger with me in the unknown, see me through the darkness,<br \/>\nand I will see your face.<br \/>\nYour loving smile, the warmth of your hands, seducing me back to life.<\/h5>\n<h5>Twilight is gone, night descends and my dreams awake.<br \/>\nMemories taunt the familiar ache in my heart.<br \/>\nA chance was all it took, a chance I never got.<br \/>\nShards of broken glass fill my cup,<br \/>\nevery clock\u2019s ticking hand\u00a0reminding me of time\u2019s finality.<br \/>\nI fought every seen and unseen war, and lost.<br \/>\nAnd then with my heart bleeding in my hands, I foolishly gave up destiny.<\/h5>\n<h5>The cobalt sky descends, bleeding onyx into my memory,<br \/>\nas old dreams painfully awake.<br \/>\nRemove the light of your liquid silver, holding my breath, and grip my hand,<br \/>\nlet me drown in your beauty.<br \/>\nWith solar warmth burn me up, birth me into another world.<\/h5>\n<h5>Falling stars, fall with me.<br \/>\nPearlescent wings unfold, fly me up into eternal night&#8217;s bliss.<br \/>\nVenom of fantasy hunt me, take me, transform me.<br \/>\nDeity of all deity&#8217;s, make the impossible real, despite the dust that I am.<br \/>\nCongeal, bleed, flake, let me be what I dream of being.<br \/>\nChampion who will guide, I call to you. I wait for you.<br \/>\nSilent in the void, cocooned in the light that only you will see.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>7th out 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain melts the twilight sky as cresting waves pound the shoreline. Wind lift me up, let me swim in the Milky Way &#8211; its raspberry sweetness on my tongue,\u00a0as dreams pass this dreamer by. I caress the stars above, kiss the moon with tender lips,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[680,1611,1613,237,1614,1173,151,590,31,410,102,57,10,1158,1157,1280,1615,478,477,1612,1610,390],"class_list":["post-22021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-champion","tag-cocooned","tag-dreams","tag-fantasy","tag-half-marathon","tag-hour-7","tag-light","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-moon","tag-night","tag-poetry","tag-poetryhalfmarathon2016","tag-poetrymarathon2016","tag-saskia-lynge","tag-seduce","tag-sky","tag-stars","tag-transform","tag-when-night-descends","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22021","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\/812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26063,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22021\/revisions\/26063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}