{"id":89789,"date":"2021-06-26T11:43:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89789"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:43:24","slug":"hour-3-saving-my-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-3-saving-my-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 3: Saving My Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89838 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crying-Black-Face.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crying-Black-Face.jpg 206w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crying-Black-Face-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/>I\u2019ll not let sorrow have my tears<\/p>\n<p>My sorrows are full enough,<\/p>\n<p>Overflowing and spreading drearily across my life<\/p>\n<p>Eclipsing my sunrises<\/p>\n<p>Shrouding my stars<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll not let sorrow have my tears<\/p>\n<p>To shrink themselves into less,<\/p>\n<p>Washing away guilt<\/p>\n<p>Cleansing the soul<\/p>\n<p>Stealing meaning from my sadness<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll not let sorrow have my tears<\/p>\n<p>To comfort the pain,<\/p>\n<p>Keeping the hurt within me<\/p>\n<p>Enduring like a martyr<\/p>\n<p>Baptizing as if divine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89833 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-tears-of-joy-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-tears-of-joy-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-tears-of-joy.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Rather than drown in swells of sorrow<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m saving my tears for joy<\/p>\n<p>Whenever it comes.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll let joy burst out with my tears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll not let sorrow have my tears My sorrows are full enough, Overflowing and spreading drearily across my life Eclipsing my sunrises Shrouding my stars &nbsp; I\u2019ll not let sorrow have my tears To shrink themselves into less, Washing away guilt Cleansing the soul Stealing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4101],"class_list":["post-89789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2021poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89789","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\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89849,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89789\/revisions\/89849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}