{"id":68312,"date":"2020-06-27T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68312"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:44:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:44:35","slug":"i-dont-know-how-to-write-love-poems-anymore-1-2-marathon-hour-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/i-dont-know-how-to-write-love-poems-anymore-1-2-marathon-hour-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t know how to write love poems (anymore) (1\/2 Marathon, Hour Eight)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I don\u2019t know how to write love poems (anymore)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wanted new love to become my muse<br \/>\nThe way she became part of my healing<\/p>\n<p>Balm<br \/>\nWarm<br \/>\nSafer than I knew before<\/p>\n<p>But my last muse took something quintessential<\/p>\n<p>Her duality was tricky<br \/>\nSimply cure for her own poison<\/p>\n<p>She gave me back my words<br \/>\nBy reaching down my throat<br \/>\nIntubating me to breathe poetry again<\/p>\n<p>But the barbs embedded in the process<br \/>\nRipped through heart muscle when she snatched her arm back<br \/>\nScratching me raw as she withdrew her love<br \/>\nMaiming my tongue leaving bloody streaks<\/p>\n<p>Yes<br \/>\nI can still breathe<\/p>\n<p>But how can I ever speak poetry in love again<br \/>\nThe wounds still twinge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know how to write love poems (anymore) I wanted new love to become my muse The way she became part of my healing Balm Warm Safer than I knew before But my last muse took something quintessential Her duality was tricky Simply cure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68312","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\/1168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68320,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68312\/revisions\/68320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}