{"id":36287,"date":"2017-08-05T16:53:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36287"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:28:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:28:53","slug":"broken-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/broken-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"broken beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Original lines taken from Take This Longing <\/em>by Leonard Cohen:<\/p>\n

\u2026your beauty lost to you, yourself,<\/em><\/p>\n

just as it was lost to them \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n

take this longing from my tongue<\/em><\/p>\n

all the useless things my hands have done<\/em><\/p>\n

let me see your beauty broken down<\/em><\/p>\n

like you would do<\/em><\/p>\n

for one you love.<\/em><\/p>\n

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broken beauty<\/em><\/p>\n

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

What did they do to your<\/p>\n

confidence that you don\u2019t see your beauty<\/p>\n

behind the pieces of you lost<\/p>\n

to time, to happiness to<\/p>\n

pieces of you<\/p>\n

you wouldn\u2019t see in yourself.<\/p>\n

If I could just<\/p>\n

love you enough as<\/p>\n

to hold a mirror for you to see yourself in it,<\/p>\n

I wonder if it was,<\/p>\n

or would be time lost<\/p>\n

for me to<\/p>\n

find them<\/p>\n

and take<\/p>\n

them a painting of this<\/p>\n

holy mess they\u2019ve been longing<\/p>\n

to claim from<\/p>\n

what they have stolen from my<\/p>\n

heart, my soul, my tongue.<\/p>\n

Like you, once and for all,<\/p>\n

I need the<\/p>\n

voices to stop telling me I\u2019m useless<\/p>\n

with these things<\/p>\n

tangled in my<\/p>\n

heart in my hands.<\/p>\n

I need to have<\/p>\n

peace in what I have done.<\/p>\n

Even when you have my blood to let,<\/p>\n

you see me<\/p>\n

let me see<\/p>\n

you and all of your<\/p>\n

broken beauty \u2013<\/p>\n

soul held down<\/p>\n

with kisses like<\/p>\n

everything you said you<\/p>\n

loved or would<\/p>\n

love if we could do<\/p>\n

what we needed for<\/p>\n

ourselves just one<\/p>\n

time if you<\/p>\n

let me give you love.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a9 Aug 5\/17 prompt 8<\/p>\n

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Original lines taken from Take This Longing by Leonard Cohen: \u2026your beauty lost to you, yourself, just as it was lost to them \u2013 take this longing from my tongue all the useless things my hands have done let me see your beauty broken down…<\/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-36287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36287","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=36287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37911,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36287\/revisions\/37911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}