{"id":33406,"date":"2017-08-05T12:41:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33406"},"modified":"2017-08-25T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T19:25:48","slug":"hazy-view-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hazy-view-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazy View From Here&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nI have looked into this window before.<\/p>\n<p>Peering past my own reflection to see what is inside.<\/p>\n<p>Light shining through the particles of dust that have settled into the glass&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hazy view from here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Peering past my own reflection to see what&#8217;s inside<\/p>\n<p>I call into the darkness for a response, are you in there?<\/p>\n<p>I will keep calling you until you tell me to go, and to go for good&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t hear too clearly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Light shining through\u00a0the particles of dust that have settled into the glass&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am connected to that light and my heart won&#8217;t try another route<\/p>\n<p>Shining through, across and over the landscape of the memories we made before the memories that almost took us down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I will be here still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hazy view from here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>i wont ask for you to wipe anything clean for me to see<\/p>\n<p>The clarity I seek wont come by peering through a window or crossing some other pane of glass<\/p>\n<p>It will come when I turn back toward the right path being shown to me..<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-32273\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7586-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Shala Lang\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7586-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7586-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7586-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7586-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7586-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7586.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":907,"featured_media":32273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,5],"tags":[680,193,75,23,31,146,17,15,391,10,355,2116,1628,390,1084,392],"class_list":["post-33406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-193","tag-inspiration","tag-life","tag-love","tag-love-inspiration","tag-nature","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-poetrymarathon2017","tag-prompt","tag-writer","tag-writing","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33406","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\/907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44631,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33406\/revisions\/44631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}