{"id":47550,"date":"2019-06-22T11:14:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47550"},"modified":"2020-06-28T18:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T22:58:14","slug":"the-shapes-im-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-shapes-im-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shapes I&#8217;m In"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/autumnsonlyone\/fifth-hour\/\">Fifth Hour<\/a><\/pre>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">The Shapes I&#8217;m In<\/h3>\n<p>If you know me, you know the shape I am in.<br \/>\nLike a square, I can be one-dimensional,<br \/>\nflat and unimpressive &#8211; reclusive.I can appear one-faceted, boxed in.<br \/>\nAlone and exclusive.<br \/>\nMy square days don&#8217;t define me,<br \/>\nBut it is who I can be &#8211; Unobtrusive.<\/p>\n<p>When I am a triangular prism,<br \/>\nthere is no doubt that I am showing my best self,<br \/>\nTransparent &#8211; no schisms.<br \/>\nI can clearly see out of the four faces,<br \/>\nand stand tall on it&#8217;s fifth.<br \/>\nI have five-fold vision.<\/p>\n<p>No smoking mirrors, no secrets<br \/>\nAnd no myths.<br \/>\nDeclaring my purpose<br \/>\nTo whosoever will,<br \/>\nComing from a very dark place,<br \/>\nI have risen!<\/p>\n<p>See me as a spiraling circle,<br \/>\non an obstacle course,<br \/>\nlearning to jump through hoops&#8230;<br \/>\ndownward then upward,<br \/>\nlike a driven trainer riding<br \/>\na prize-winning horse,<br \/>\nno complaints &#8211; no remorse!<\/p>\n<p>I have been a rectangular prism,<br \/>\nBut I applaud my highs and I rest in my lows.<br \/>\nI am not just me by the faces you see,<br \/>\nBut by the length, width, height, and depth,<br \/>\nI am a complete miracle,<br \/>\nMathematical geometry!<\/p>\n<p>City of Compton 90222<br \/>\nJune 22, 2019@11:!4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth Hour The Shapes I&#8217;m In If you know me, you know the shape I am in. Like a square, I can be one-dimensional, flat and unimpressive &#8211; reclusive.I can appear one-faceted, boxed in. Alone and exclusive. My square days don&#8217;t define me, But it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47550","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\/1186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47550"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51350,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47550\/revisions\/51350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}