{"id":38904,"date":"2017-08-05T21:39:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38904"},"modified":"2017-08-06T09:09:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T13:09:28","slug":"a-dialogue-with-a-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/a-dialogue-with-a-poet\/","title":{"rendered":". A dialogue with a poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am obsessed with writing notes on a table napkin,<\/p>\n<p>But never a poem was written except, a sweet note of inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>it wasn&#8217;t even properly compose in a correct grammar or even rephrase<\/p>\n<p>Inside the dark pocket, waiting to unveil the beauty of prose.<\/p>\n<p>I battled procrastination, the reason why I kept a journal.<\/p>\n<p>A \u00a0reminder, that I need to keep on writing.<\/p>\n<p>Seating quietly \u00a0for hours on my desk and suddenly I switched \u00a0to reading a book instead.<\/p>\n<p>I was told to set a goal but, my brain doesn&#8217;t cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>Had I not been procrastinating, I should have done, what I have done.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, a published book of poetry or a short novel,<\/p>\n<p>But, the last paragraph, caught me hanging.<\/p>\n<p>i can&#8217;t even weave words to end the last paragraph of my plot<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t even invent a story to put a tragic ending to my novel.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking my imbalance hormones affect my sincere intention to write<\/p>\n<p>And set aside my goal instead.<\/p>\n<p>When my mood change,<\/p>\n<p>The journal I bought, contained doodles of flowers and hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, the poems and the story that I need to write,<\/p>\n<p>Must be kept inside my heart because,<\/p>\n<p>The words that I have are seared with scars and<\/p>\n<p>Only blotches of ink from tears will be visible,<\/p>\n<p>To the naked eyes of the reader<\/p>\n<p>Because, I\u00a0was badly hurt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am obsessed with writing notes on a table napkin, But never a poem was written except, a sweet note of inspiration. it wasn&#8217;t even properly compose in a correct grammar or even rephrase Inside the dark pocket, waiting to unveil the beauty of prose&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38904","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\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39126,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38904\/revisions\/39126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}