{"id":56027,"date":"2019-06-23T05:07:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56027"},"modified":"2019-06-23T05:07:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:07:46","slug":"rediscovery-an-acrostic-hour-twenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/rediscovery-an-acrostic-hour-twenty\/","title":{"rendered":"Rediscovery (An Acrostic, Hour Twenty)"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

Rediscovery<\/h2>\n

 <\/p>\n

F<\/strong><\/span>ailure<\/p>\n

I<\/span><\/strong>s hard for me.<\/p>\n

N<\/span><\/strong>ever do I<\/p>\n

D<\/span><\/strong>are to accept or admit defeat.<\/p>\n

I<\/span><\/strong>‘m invincible, right?<\/em><\/p>\n

N<\/span><\/strong>ot on your nelly!<\/p>\n

G<\/span><\/strong>rief has whooped<\/p>\n

M<\/span><\/strong>y arse in<\/p>\n

E<\/span><\/strong>very way imaginable.<\/p>\n

A<\/span><\/strong> once in a lifetime love<\/p>\n

G<\/span><\/strong>one forever.<\/p>\n

A<\/span><\/strong>n eighteen plus year career<\/p>\n

I<\/span><\/strong> built by my blood, sweat, and tears is<\/p>\n

N<\/span><\/strong>o more.<\/p>\n

A<\/span><\/strong>ll the security and stability<\/p>\n

I<\/span><\/strong>‘d envisioned for my future was whisked away, leaving<\/p>\n

N<\/span><\/strong>othing behind.<\/p>\n

T<\/span><\/strong>oday, I admit defeat<\/em>,<\/p>\n

E<\/span><\/strong>stablishing myself<\/p>\n

A<\/span><\/strong>s a three time loser just as<\/p>\n

S<\/span><\/strong>oon as she files the paperwork and makes it official.<\/p>\n

Y<\/span><\/strong>esterday may have bankrupted me, but tomorrow is a clean slate, a new start.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(An acrostic is a poem where the beginning letter of each line, when reading downward, spells out a word, message, or even the entire alphabet. I’ve highlighted each letter in red to make it easier to find the hidden message inside.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Rediscovery   Failure Is hard for me. Never do I Dare to accept or admit defeat. I‘m invincible, right? Not on your nelly! Grief has whooped My arse in Every way imaginable. A once in a lifetime love Gone forever. An eighteen plus year…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[2502,3305,1204,3307,3306,31],"class_list":["post-56027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-acrostic","tag-bankruptcy","tag-grief","tag-layoff","tag-loser","tag-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56027","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\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56660,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56027\/revisions\/56660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}