{"id":77244,"date":"2020-06-28T21:47:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T01:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=77244"},"modified":"2020-06-28T21:47:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T01:47:52","slug":"silent-struggle-hour-fifteen-a-nontraditional-minute-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/silent-struggle-hour-fifteen-a-nontraditional-minute-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Struggle (Hour Fifteen, A Nontraditional Minute Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77249\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/silence-e1593394301506-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/silence-e1593394301506-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/silence-e1593394301506.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">S<\/span>i<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">L<\/span>e<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">N<\/span>t <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">S<\/span>t<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">R<\/span>u<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">G<\/span>g<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">L<\/span>e<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in forever,<\/p>\n<p>self-expression<\/p>\n<p>is a struggle,<\/p>\n<p>blocked by my mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many truths need to be spoken.<\/p>\n<p>I move my mouth<\/p>\n<p>but hear no noise.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve lost my voice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ev&#8217;ry word I want escapes me.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t focus,<\/p>\n<p>brain feels foggy.<\/p>\n<p>Where is my muse?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Without words, I&#8217;m left with nothing.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re the <em>one thing<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I understand.<\/p>\n<p>Worthless,<span style=\"color: #33cccc\"><strong> I weep.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(A traditional minute poem is made up of 60 syllables divided between three stanzas. The four lines of each stanza will have a syllabic count of 8\/4\/4\/4. Typically, these poems are written in strict iambic meter and follow a rhyme scheme of aabb, ccdd, eeff. This version, the nontraditional, eliminates the tough stuff like meter and scheme and works well whether you&#8217;re exhausted, like me, or just lazy &#8212; also like me!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SiLeNt StRuGgLe &nbsp; For the first time in forever, self-expression is a struggle, blocked by my mind. &nbsp; Many truths need to be spoken. I move my mouth but hear no noise. I&#8217;ve lost my voice. &nbsp; Ev&#8217;ry word I want escapes me. I can&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77244","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=77244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77253,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77244\/revisions\/77253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}