{"id":67026,"date":"2020-06-27T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67026"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:15:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:15:32","slug":"7-a-pictures-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/7-a-pictures-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"#7 A Picture\u2019s Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boxes of photographs tell the story of my life<br \/>\nthe camera has captured moments, not emotion<br \/>\npictures of people and places hiding commotion<br \/>\nnot the waves of memory in motion<br \/>\nnot a heart, only colors devoid of strife. <\/p>\n<p>I first overcame through tears.<br \/>\nThen I learned to cope in denial<br \/>\nas if my safety had never been on trial.<br \/>\nMy demeanor showed cheerful guile<br \/>\nwhile I survived the healing years.<\/p>\n<p>A child who loves is lost<br \/>\nwhen mother and father leave<br \/>\nand family means fear must be grieved.<br \/>\nA child who loves believes<br \/>\nher world is forever storm-tossed.<\/p>\n<p>If she stays the course, her spirit will revive.<br \/>\nShe will discover she won\u2019t always be adrift.<br \/>\nAge and wisdom teach many gifts<br \/>\nabout how to grow strong, how to close rifts.<br \/>\nShe will build herself up, love again, fly. <\/p>\n<p>And these are the truths photos don\u2019t show.<br \/>\nBecause sorrow is too bold for us<br \/>\npain so heavy it burdens us<br \/>\nso man\u2019s invention the camera lies for us.<br \/>\nBut hope is worth holding; don\u2019t let go.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxes of photographs tell the story of my life the camera has captured moments, not emotion pictures of people and places hiding commotion not the waves of memory in motion not a heart, only colors devoid of strife. I first overcame through tears. Then I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67026","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\/1489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67047,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67026\/revisions\/67047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}