{"id":3754,"date":"2021-06-11T21:53:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T01:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2021-06-11T21:53:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T01:53:42","slug":"gathering-a-portable-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/11\/gathering-a-portable-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"gathering a portable illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>golden palaces seem so far away<br \/>\nand i still haven&#8217;t got used to<br \/>\nthis abstract loneliness<br \/>\ntoo still<br \/>\nand<br \/>\ntoo tired<br \/>\nto fight<br \/>\nmoving slowly from the center<br \/>\ni wasn&#8217;t meant for this<br \/>\nmental slavery<br \/>\nand cold eyes fear<br \/>\nthe death of quiet routine<br \/>\ni&#8217;m a player<br \/>\nwith no game to play<br \/>\nstuck on the holy number nine<br \/>\nwaiting for love&#8217;s revolutionaries<br \/>\nand wandering ruptured wavelengths<br \/>\nin search of a kindred soul<\/p>\n<p>sometimes life&#8217;s melodies<br \/>\nseem so muted<br \/>\nand other times<br \/>\nthey rush and roar<br \/>\nlouder than the open sea<br \/>\ni need a holiday<br \/>\nfrom muscle memory<br \/>\ni need wild flowers<br \/>\nand hot flesh<br \/>\nransoming fate<br \/>\nfor naked laughter<br \/>\ni pray for dramatic symmetry<br \/>\nso that one day<br \/>\nimagination<br \/>\nwill become experience<br \/>\nand homemade passion<br \/>\nwill shatter territorial silence<br \/>\nand warm this graveyard heart<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/530-gathering-a-portable-illusion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/530-gathering-a-portable-illusion-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"530-gathering-a-portable-illusion\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/530-gathering-a-portable-illusion-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/530-gathering-a-portable-illusion-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/530-gathering-a-portable-illusion.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}