{"id":33804,"date":"2017-08-05T12:51:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33804"},"modified":"2017-08-05T12:51:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:51:42","slug":"the-embracing-of-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-embracing-of-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"The Embracing Of Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where water lays down her life<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

to the pulling air,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

where stone succumbs to<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

the laughing river,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

where the oxygen yields to<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

the latent life of wood afire,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

where the micobes\u2019 anthems<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

unrivet my still body:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is where I will give over<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

my burden of Being \u2013<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Not in light, but in the embracing<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

of shadows.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

May this be the<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Going-Back Bridge to<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

the mystery<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

of the Mystery.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

J. Pratt-Walter (c) 2017<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Where water lays down her life to the pulling air, where stone succumbs to the laughing river, where the oxygen yields to the latent life of wood afire, where the micobes\u2019 anthems unrivet my still body: \u00a0 This is where I will give over my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33804","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\/1133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33862,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33804\/revisions\/33862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}