{"id":77232,"date":"2020-06-28T21:24:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T01:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=77232"},"modified":"2020-06-28T21:24:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T01:24:46","slug":"miss-connections-hour-fourteen-a-hall-of-mirrors-haynaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/miss-connections-hour-fourteen-a-hall-of-mirrors-haynaku\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Connections (Hour Fourteen, A Hall of Mirrors Hay(na)ku)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77235 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpower-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpower-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpower-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpower.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\">Miss Connections<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The only thing<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">in this<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">life<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I&#8217;ve\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">ever been<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">any good at<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">is taking words<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">and turning<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">them<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">into\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">a message<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">meant to motivate<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">most folks like<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">me and<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">I&#8217;ve<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">shared so<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">many magic moments,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">created countless connections,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">all options<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">which<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">afforded<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">me such<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">a golden opportunity<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">to reach out<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">to the<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">broken,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">letting<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">them know<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">they&#8217;re not alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(A hay(na)ku is a three line poem where the only rule is that the first line is made up of one word, the second line of two words, and the third line of three words. A reverse hay(na)ku is a three line poem composed in the opposite manner, so line one would be three words, line two is two words, and line three would be just one word. During the 2019 Poetry Marathon, I combined these two styles to create what I called the &#8220;mirror hay(na)ku&#8221;. This time, I have taken things a step further with the &#8220;Hall of Mirrors Hay(na)ku&#8221;, which is composed of five separate mirror hay(na)ku stanzas.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Miss Connections &nbsp; The only thing in this life I&#8217;ve\u00a0 ever been any good at is taking words and turning them into\u00a0 a message meant to motivate most folks like me and you. I&#8217;ve shared so many magic moments, created countless connections, all options&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-miscellaneous","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77232","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=77232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77243,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77232\/revisions\/77243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}