{"id":4416,"date":"2024-06-23T20:57:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T00:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2024-06-23T20:57:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T00:57:36","slug":"preparation-for-a-delightful-and-unseen-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/23\/preparation-for-a-delightful-and-unseen-conclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"preparation for a delightful and unseen conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->one mis-step or maybe two<br \/>\nnaked and spitting cold fire<br \/>\nonto a hollow moon<br \/>\nwe laugh and scream<br \/>\nat life&#8217;s absurdities<br \/>\nsitting silently<br \/>\nwishing for simpler times<br \/>\nas crazy love lurks and lingers<br \/>\nlike broken fingers<br \/>\ncurious and crawling<br \/>\nacross pale bodies<br \/>\ncaptured on a midnight excursion<\/p>\n<p>waiting in hopeless anticipation<br \/>\nwe wander and defiantly dance<br \/>\nacross confined puppet landscapes<br \/>\ntoo cartoonish to be real<br \/>\nas intelligent design is retarded<br \/>\nand our vital structures fade<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s all a simulated reality<br \/>\nwith half fed dreams<br \/>\nand passive wounds<br \/>\nentwined with persistent illusions<br \/>\nas furious flowers<br \/>\nbend against fate<br \/>\nbut refuse to submit<\/p>\n<p>laughing at life&#8217;s reconditioned narration<br \/>\nwe sharpen the blade of unspoken faith<br \/>\nand write blasphemous words<br \/>\nwith a bony appetite<br \/>\nsinging songs of a hidden holocaust<br \/>\nas calm souls stir<br \/>\nin the eye<br \/>\nof an inverted and narrow storm<br \/>\nand we reluctantly conclude<br \/>\nthat half-assed miracles<br \/>\nand moderately priced beer<br \/>\ncan only carry us so far<\/p>\n<p>slow, and almost empty<br \/>\nwe increase the volume<br \/>\nof forgotten sunsets<br \/>\nas that distant and tragic mistress<br \/>\nblurs an animated heart<br \/>\nnetworked in a broken engine<br \/>\nof divine peace<\/p>\n<p>burn that logical notebook<br \/>\nand question the rhythm of dangerous drums<br \/>\nas mystery blooms like a clockwork dream<br \/>\nand that comfortable madness<br \/>\nbecomes our holy and uncertain destination<br \/>\nrepackaged and dangling<br \/>\non the membrane of random poetry<br \/>\nand pining for salvation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/591-preparation-for-a-delightful-and-unseen-conclusion-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4422\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/591-preparation-for-a-delightful-and-unseen-conclusion--218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/591-preparation-for-a-delightful-and-unseen-conclusion--218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/591-preparation-for-a-delightful-and-unseen-conclusion--145x200.jpg 145w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/591-preparation-for-a-delightful-and-unseen-conclusion-.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/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-4416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416","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=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4425,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions\/4425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}