{"id":254,"date":"2019-07-12T15:33:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T15:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lydiaink.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2021-01-10T10:42:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T15:42:49","slug":"writing-poetry-is-a-personal-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/12\/writing-poetry-is-a-personal-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ascent and Fall in Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Catapulted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Right off the ground<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I knew straight up<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> There was nothing for it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> So I spread my arms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> On the ascend and lifted my chin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> And while the numbing wind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Blows through my hair, my body,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I will take a moment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> To forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Ignore the memory of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The smashing that is coming<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The splat on the grass<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> And the certain tumbling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Forget the fact that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Being screwed over is<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> My fault here in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The twenty-first century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Be smarter, be better, find<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> the weak point and thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> There is no excuse for tender<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Moments and forgetting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The power of lust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> My eyes wide for the momentary stop,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> A surge of adrenalin!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Blue sky and white cloud all<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> On the horizon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> But here it comes that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Mild descent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I open my chest to the pinnacle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Close my mind,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> pause and dive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catapulted &#8211; it happens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,50],"tags":[22,9],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-romance","tag-poetry","tag-poettues"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}