{"id":72388,"date":"2020-06-28T01:38:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72388"},"modified":"2020-06-28T01:38:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:38:55","slug":"loves-purgatory-veiled-in-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/loves-purgatory-veiled-in-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Love&#8217;s Purgatory Veiled In Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_72431\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72431\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72431\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Loves-Purgatory-Veiled-in-blue-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Loves-Purgatory-Veiled-in-blue-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Loves-Purgatory-Veiled-in-blue-2.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image retrieved from: https:\/\/myminiurl.net\/lM0JN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Love&#8217;s Purgatory Veiled In Blue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Caught in your smile, the gentle way your lips move as you spoke through anfractuous teeth<br \/>\ngrinding out the veracity through geared gristmills, laden with powder&#8211;<br \/>\nwith what was left of my spirit, catching on the edge of your words.<br \/>\nThurst away, my back arched as I fell upon a stalagmite, impaling an asinine dream.<br \/>\nI am lost within a cave of vagary, Adam&#8217;s ale dripping from the speleothems<br \/>\ncollecting tears into the fissures of my pathetic little heart.<br \/>\nHow truth is veiled as it sidesteps my pleading, and still I allowed you to linger on<br \/>\ninnervating the fibers of my being entangling within the illusion of you.<\/p>\n<p>I carried you with me as I would time, and I watched the hands with bated breath<br \/>\nas the gnomon found its shadow chasing the sun across the expanse of water<br \/>\nVeiled in the blue, my eyes shut tight against the inexorable-<br \/>\nthe lingering answer I already knew within my core, yet still I conceived that hope was a better choice.<br \/>\nEncompassed within you is the essence of every desire in life I collected and clutched to my breast<br \/>\nI clung to the latitudinous invention that somewhere within the brine of your heart, a fragmented spark touched off.<br \/>\nBlinded by the veil, as blue as the South Atlantic, I pressed on and pushed away years of languishing, for it had not.<br \/>\nHow staggering the truth becomes whilst in a purgatory of the heart, twisted and tormented by the strength of unrequited love.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, I resign myself to my sepulcher deep within the hollow, dressed in a robe of darkness, disconsolately disenchanted<br \/>\nCaught within the spider silk of the veil weaving through my vision, natant upon the jettisoned subterranian river of my crestfallen lament..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Love&#8217;s Purgatory Veiled In Blue &nbsp; Caught in your smile, the gentle way your lips move as you spoke through anfractuous teeth grinding out the veracity through geared gristmills, laden with powder&#8211; with what was left of my spirit, catching on the edge of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3663,3899,1931,3901,479,3808,31,324,10,3900],"class_list":["post-72388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2020poetry-marathon","tag-ass","tag-lovelost","tag-foolish-love","tag-heartbreak","tag-jvstanley","tag-love","tag-muse","tag-poetry","tag-unrequitedlove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72388","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\/1485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73578,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72388\/revisions\/73578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}