{"id":93939,"date":"2021-06-26T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93939"},"modified":"2021-06-26T16:34:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:34:32","slug":"a-time-constraint-of-the-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-time-constraint-of-the-ego\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time\u2014Constraint of the Ego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Ego appeared and spoke to me<\/p>\n<p>Saying, \u201cI\u201d now wish to be heard<\/p>\n<p>In a time that is of now\u2014presently<\/p>\n<p>In a time that\u2019s yet conquered<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ego\u2019s debut<\/p>\n<p>Appearing at hour nine<\/p>\n<p>For as the ninth letter is said to construe<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cI\u201d of what\u2019s possessed by time<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ego raised itself to say\u2014<\/p>\n<p>For it is \u201cI\u201d who (presently) speak these words<\/p>\n<p>For \u201cI\u201d am also often found to convey<\/p>\n<p>Time that\u2019s said to move backwards<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the verb is found in times past<\/p>\n<p>The tense that speaks of me<\/p>\n<p>But when the motion of what \u201cI\u201d had cast<\/p>\n<p>Spoken of time that\u2019s been\u2014done already<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u201d linger in time that\u2019s passed<\/p>\n<p>Things\u2014 already achieved<\/p>\n<p>Done\u2014 and yet am now surpassed<\/p>\n<p>By the conjunction of an \u201cam\u201d presently relieved<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ego appeared and spoke to me Saying, \u201cI\u201d now wish to be heard In a time that is of now\u2014presently In a time that\u2019s yet conquered &nbsp; The Ego\u2019s debut Appearing at hour nine For as the ninth letter is said to construe The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[4101,2405,325,4420,1685,725,355,48],"class_list":["post-93939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2021poetrymarathon","tag-ninthpoem","tag-challenge","tag-ego","tag-hour-nine","tag-ninth-hour","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93939","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\/1566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93963,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93939\/revisions\/93963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}