{"id":77338,"date":"2020-06-29T03:58:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=77338"},"modified":"2020-06-29T03:58:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:58:56","slug":"hips-dont-lie-but-your-eyes-do-hour-twenty-three-a-hall-of-mirrors-haynaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hips-dont-lie-but-your-eyes-do-hour-twenty-three-a-hall-of-mirrors-haynaku\/","title":{"rendered":"Hips Don’t Lie But Your Eyes Do (Hour Twenty Three, A Hall of Mirrors Hay(na)ku)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hips Don’t Lie But Your Eyes Do<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

I saw the<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

flickering flame<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

of<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

desire<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

burning brightly<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

in your eyes,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

heard your heartbeat<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

pick up<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

the<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

pace<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

every time<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

she walked by.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

You once looked<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

at me<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

that<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

way,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

with stars<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

in your eyes.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Time has taken<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

its toll<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

upon<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

my<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

broken body,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

but I’m still<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

the same inside.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Let love<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

reignite<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

ashes<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

of passion,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

long since dead.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

(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 \u201cmirror hay(na)ku\u201d. This time, I have taken things a step further with the \u201cHall of Mirrors Hay(na)ku\u201d, which is composed of five separate mirror hay(na)ku stanzas.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hips Don’t Lie But Your Eyes Do I saw the flickering flame of desire burning brightly in your eyes, heard your heartbeat pick up the pace every time she walked by. You once looked at me that way, with stars in your eyes. Time has…<\/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-77338","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\/77338","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=77338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77344,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77338\/revisions\/77344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}