{"id":94400,"date":"2021-06-26T17:06:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94400"},"modified":"2021-06-27T22:09:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T02:09:14","slug":"poem-9-a-tribute-to-christina-georgina-rossetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-9-a-tribute-to-christina-georgina-rossetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 9: A Tribute to Christina Georgina Rossetti  &#8220;The Strangler&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The curtains drawn<\/p>\n<p>The lights were dimmed<\/p>\n<p>I could hear the ivy breathing<\/p>\n<p>my shelter garden untrimmed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I thoght of my pillow refuge<\/p>\n<p>As legs were weary<\/p>\n<p>and my terror-stricken mind<\/p>\n<p>Alone and leery<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was before me<\/p>\n<p>My disguise of sleep unfooling<\/p>\n<p>I could feel his cutting eyes<\/p>\n<p>in their arrogant ruling<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I knew he pitied me<\/p>\n<p>and that was his power<\/p>\n<p>As I practised being weak<\/p>\n<p>below his indestructible glower<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He felt my death<\/p>\n<p>but does not understand it<\/p>\n<p>His unique style of murder<\/p>\n<p>Suffocation, bit by bit<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was never love<\/p>\n<p>except a passion for being<\/p>\n<p>A holding, perfecting idol<\/p>\n<p>yet unaware of his unseeing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will find a home<\/p>\n<p>with softness and forgiveness<\/p>\n<p>In this half-sleep dream<\/p>\n<p>a miracle of impulsiveness<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Saving my name<\/p>\n<p>Honour, or whatever it may be<\/p>\n<p>letting go of imprisonment<\/p>\n<p>Undead and free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The curtains drawn The lights were dimmed I could hear the ivy breathing my shelter garden untrimmed &nbsp; I thoght of my pillow refuge As legs were weary and my terror-stricken mind Alone and leery &nbsp; He was before me My disguise of sleep unfooling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94400","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\/1447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103500,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94400\/revisions\/103500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}