{"id":35299,"date":"2017-08-05T15:14:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35299"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:14:27","slug":"where-silence-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/where-silence-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"where silence lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

where silence lives<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The spaces in between thoughts \u2013<\/p>\n

that\u2019s where silence lives<\/p>\n

or wisdom<\/p>\n

or something I will never get to because my mind won\u2019t stop filling with your eyes<\/p>\n

or the memory of your whispers in my hair.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I try to get back to those spaces in between thoughts<\/p>\n

but there is no more silences in my head.<\/p>\n

Those spaces are filled with grains of sand and sea shells and sunsets<\/p>\n

and the scent of coconut and sunshine.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The spaces in between thoughts \u2013<\/p>\n

that\u2019s where you live so no one can find you and steal you<\/p>\n

or force you into places accessible by day light.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I like you best in darkness and shadow<\/p>\n

where my skin glows with the light with which you filled me<\/p>\n

by the light of our bodies<\/p>\n

and the stillness of our longing<\/p>\n

I find you \u2013<\/p>\n

I find you in those spaces between thoughts<\/p>\n

and desires \u2013<\/p>\n

for all I wanted and didn\u2019t know I needed<\/p>\n

in those silences between thoughts.<\/p>\n

R. L. Elke<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Aug 5\/17 prompt 6<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

where silence lives \u00a0 The spaces in between thoughts \u2013 that\u2019s where silence lives or wisdom or something I will never get to because my mind won\u2019t stop filling with your eyes or the memory of your whispers in my hair.   I try to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35299","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35317,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35299\/revisions\/35317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}