{"id":98871,"date":"2021-06-26T23:18:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98871"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:24:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:24:14","slug":"quieter-enjoyments-hour-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/quieter-enjoyments-hour-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Softer Dangers ( Hour 15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quieter enjoyments promised in a simple friendship, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">softer dangers that might leave you hungry, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">too afraid to not be on that imagined stage, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">for fear of missing something that might never return.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To yield from the fiery starblast, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">thousand-armed thunderclouds, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">booming fierceness, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a fight that holds my curious, dreamer-eyes awake.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I should have said yes to your extended hand. <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Played at life from round dining room tables,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">behind locked doors, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with security at a phone call distance.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Should have stayed safe from darkened streets, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stripping eyes that never saw me, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">but saw only movements living in the lamplight alley.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Should have said yes to a hidden tomorrow,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">gifted, preserved, outlasting the hormonal rush to die all at once, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rather than slowly losing myself in the years that came.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The book is closed, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">time is an old window that only stares out over the ocean. <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">waves ripple where memory blurs, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">not many changes back then, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I can only say yes to how I see it now.<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quieter enjoyments promised in a simple friendship, softer dangers that might leave you hungry, too afraid to not be on that imagined stage, for fear of missing something that might never return. To yield from the fiery starblast, thousand-armed thunderclouds, booming fierceness, a fight that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98871","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100318,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98871\/revisions\/100318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}