her beauty draws me near<\/p>\n
but her mind awes and inspires<\/p>\n
its depths fathomless as unexplored seas<\/p>\n
tempt me to dwell where I dare not go<\/p>\n
for her wit confounds me<\/p>\n
my tongue from which words flow like water<\/p>\n
will not let them pour forth<\/p>\n
dammed behind a stuttering wall<\/p>\n
of timidity so unlike my habitual manner<\/p>\n
as to be unrecognizable to poor Watson<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I dare not confide my unaccustomed reticence<\/p>\n
reveal the breadth of my excitation<\/p>\n
in case it interferes with investigations<\/p>\n
yet I fear it may<\/p>\n
for were she to lay a trap for me<\/p>\n
snare me in a plot<\/p>\n
would I dare trust my instincts?<\/p>\n
they baffle me so<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
addled as I am<\/p>\n
there is only one recourse –<\/p>\n
escape this raging turmoil<\/p>\n
reconcile my emotions and my wits<\/p>\n
contrive equilibrium once more<\/p>\n
and when I am able to lay passions<\/p>\n
long since quelled to rest<\/p>\n
foreswear or redouble my resolve<\/p>\n
to protect and serve<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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her beauty draws me near but her mind awes and inspires its depths fathomless as unexplored seas tempt me to dwell where I dare not go for her wit confounds me my tongue from which words flow like water will not let them pour forth…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56734","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\/1273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56941,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56734\/revisions\/56941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}