{"id":23830,"date":"2016-08-13T19:05:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23830"},"modified":"2016-08-13T19:05:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:05:50","slug":"naked-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/naked-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Naked (9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naked<\/p>\n<p>It was the morning train<br \/>\nI missed the earlier one<br \/>\nBy Providence or Luck<br \/>\nI do not know<\/p>\n<p>Gray, weeping skies<br \/>\nDreary start<\/p>\n<p>Young couple, modestly and discreetly<br \/>\nEntwined at the hand<br \/>\nWhispering everything and<br \/>\nNothing<\/p>\n<p>He leans in, kisses her forehead<br \/>\nShe, with eyes closed, sighs deeply<br \/>\nHis finger strokes her cheek<\/p>\n<p>I am suddenly shy and overcome<br \/>\nI did not choose this keyhole yet<br \/>\nI am intruding, unintentionally<br \/>\nWitness to unmistakable tenderness<\/p>\n<p>And I cannot turn away from its seductive pull<\/p>\n<p>Though, no voyeuristic pleasure is derived, to be sure<\/p>\n<p>Only a sharp, suffocating awareness of<br \/>\nLack in my own journey and<br \/>\nI am mocked<\/p>\n<p>I yearn for the earlier train<br \/>\nThe one too early for lovers<br \/>\nWhere my longing would not be quite so<br \/>\nNaked<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Davita Joie 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked It was the morning train I missed the earlier one By Providence or Luck I do not know Gray, weeping skies Dreary start Young couple, modestly and discreetly Entwined at the hand Whispering everything and Nothing He leans in, kisses her forehead She, with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23830","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23872,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23830\/revisions\/23872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}