{"id":1430,"date":"2000-08-17T13:38:38","date_gmt":"2000-08-17T20:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2013-01-19T19:16:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T03:16:06","slug":"clear-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2000\/08\/17\/clear-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to feel the clear windows<br \/>\nof songful sweeping vistas<br \/>\nthat once I knew as a child only can,<br \/>\nwould be my saving moments.<\/p>\n<p>A golden yellow sunset,<br \/>\nreaching, straining to give way to night;<br \/>\na cloud&#8217;s moist deposits taking<br \/>\naway a selfless heat;<br \/>\nThis I need repeat.<\/p>\n<p>My life has gone other ways now,<br \/>\nso those clear windows in walls too high<br \/>\nhave taken off on other paths and so<br \/>\nCannot ever be peered through.<\/p>\n<p>But vistas they afforded could not have left alone<br \/>\nthe hungry heart that pounded on<br \/>\nthis wall I pledged to break.<\/p>\n<p>And now, free, alone, awake,<br \/>\nI stride into the night<br \/>\nto find a songful sweeping vista<br \/>\nto be appreciated as only an adult can;<br \/>\nMy saving moment thus returns<br \/>\nAn evening&#8217;s end before the dawn<br \/>\nto reach and grab another day and<br \/>\ntake me on this laborious way<br \/>\nwhere labor&#8217;s love shall eat alone<br \/>\nbetween the jobs that occupy<br \/>\nand take away the pain<br \/>\nof knowing,<br \/>\npain of seeing<br \/>\npain of everything I&#8217;ve been<\/p>\n<p>to free me from myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to feel the clear windows<br \/> of songful sweeping vistas<br \/> that once I knew as a child only can,<br \/> would be my saving moments.<\/p>\n<p>A golden yellow sunset,<br \/> reaching, straining to give way to night;<br \/> a cloud&#8217;s moist deposits taking<br \/> away a selfless heat;<br \/> This I need repeat.<\/p>\n<p>My life has gone [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-personal","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","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=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}