{"id":89969,"date":"2021-06-26T19:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89969"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:42:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:42:47","slug":"poem-2-reassurances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-2-reassurances\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem II: Reassurances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if I have no more poetry left in me.<br \/>\nAll my grief drained in these metaphors,<br \/>\nwhat if I have written all my poems<br \/>\nand all I have left is bare bones.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been here before<br \/>\nand I&#8217;ve conquered<br \/>\nbut what if I<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t have it in me anymore.<br \/>\nNo\u2014<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been here before<br \/>\nand I&#8217;ve conquered.<br \/>\nMy words are in a state of war<br \/>\nbut I have sworn to sew<br \/>\nall my words into a throne<br \/>\nto testify to my hustle.<br \/>\nMy struggle<br \/>\nwill not be meaningless.<br \/>\nI am my own definition of success<br \/>\nbecause poetry is not how many eyes<br \/>\nperuse your verses but how many hearts you touch<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_210626_192712_212.sdocx--><\/p>\n<p>More poetry via Instagram <span class=\"atwho-query\">@anj<\/span>aanography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if I have no more poetry left in me. All my grief drained in these metaphors, what if I have written all my poems and all I have left is bare bones. I&#8217;ve been here before and I&#8217;ve conquered but what if I don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89969","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\/3288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96461,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89969\/revisions\/96461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}