{"id":4219,"date":"2022-06-06T21:41:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T01:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2022-06-13T21:42:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T01:42:42","slug":"remember-when-we-were-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/06\/remember-when-we-were-young\/","title":{"rendered":"remember when we were young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>how can we count the stars<br \/>\nwhen purple chocolate clouds<br \/>\nstill churn and obscure<br \/>\nall our lovely dead fates<\/p>\n<p>erupting from summer&#8217;s dark blues<br \/>\nwe emerge<br \/>\nlost and found<br \/>\nin a glorious and broken adventure<br \/>\nas black petals and white stems<br \/>\nplunge into oblivion<br \/>\nagain and again<br \/>\ncarefully we continue to play this<br \/>\nsacred and secret game<br \/>\nin a pattern that refuses to recede<\/p>\n<p>chanting caustic and impossible poetry<br \/>\nlocked in dark and longing eyes<br \/>\nstill asleep under a fading sun<br \/>\nwe manifest dreams of blurred passion<br \/>\nlike symbolic and forgotten deities<br \/>\nwaiting for worship and domination<\/p>\n<p>helpless and inanimate<br \/>\nwe shuffle in this absurd and dying cycle<br \/>\nstripped of vanity<br \/>\nand inverted<br \/>\ntowards a greater purpose<\/p>\n<p>complication and synchronization<br \/>\nwaiting to reveal<br \/>\nanother splendid misfortune<br \/>\nas the flesh melts into soul<\/p>\n<p>trouble follows a bothered mind<br \/>\nand insanity is the beginning<br \/>\nof this crippled enlightenment<br \/>\nas we stray<br \/>\nruined and born again<br \/>\nin this unfinished and tranquil tale<\/p>\n<p>a failed king and a reluctant queen<br \/>\ndistracted and paralyzed<br \/>\nin this savage and delicate world<\/p>\n<p>intoxicating addiction<br \/>\nthree tones<br \/>\nsubtle and half remembered<br \/>\nanimating slain waves<br \/>\nas obscenity and divinity<br \/>\ncollide in an illustrious<br \/>\nand final consequence<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/570-remember-when-we-were-young.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4220\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/570-remember-when-we-were-young-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"570-remember-when-we-were-young\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/570-remember-when-we-were-young-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/570-remember-when-we-were-young-145x200.jpg 145w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/570-remember-when-we-were-young.jpg 558w\" 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-4219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219","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=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4221,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions\/4221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}