{"id":1016,"date":"1988-10-10T00:18:24","date_gmt":"1988-10-10T07:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:20:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T07:20:38","slug":"setting-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1988\/10\/10\/setting-suns\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh how a setting sun departs an unobstructed sky:<br \/>\nSo firmly, without repose,<br \/>\nSteadily, enduring.<\/p>\n<p>Without contradiction, the sun<br \/>\nDoes sink, slowly, steadily.<\/p>\n<p>Downward flits that bright yellow disk,<br \/>\nTowards an edge where an abrupt world meets<br \/>\nAnd casually greets<br \/>\nAn ardent sky.<\/p>\n<p>The disk slides by.<\/p>\n<p>Silently,<br \/>\nThis disk sinks, <\/p>\n<p>The sky runs away,<br \/>\nExposing the earth to the stars.<\/p>\n<p>The sky went chasing the sun,<br \/>\nPerhaps thinking it was the last one.<\/p>\n<p>The last sinking sun I&#8217;ll see &#8211;<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll run and chase that sun that<br \/>\nLast time too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll chase the sun then too.<\/p>\n<p>But how will I ever know<br \/>\nWhich is my last setting sun?<\/p>\n<p>The sky chases out every setting sun.<br \/>\nShould I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh how a setting sun departs an unobstructed sky:<br \/> So firmly, without repose,<br \/> Steadily, enduring.<\/p>\n<p>Without contradiction, the sun<br \/> Does sink, slowly, steadily.<\/p>\n<p>Downward flits that bright yellow disk,<br \/> Towards an edge where an abrupt world meets<br \/> And casually greets<br \/> An ardent sky.<\/p>\n<p>The disk slides by.<\/p>\n<p>Silently,<br \/> This disk sinks, <\/p>\n<p>The [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-kisner-collection","category-metaphysical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}