{"id":1560,"date":"2002-07-06T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2002-07-06T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2013-04-01T01:02:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T08:02:22","slug":"disturbing-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2002\/07\/06\/disturbing-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was midnight and it brimmed over in dark solitude<br \/>\nas the river flowed to laugh with me.<br \/>\nIts babbling, raging, thundering heart<br \/>\nsuffocates and sustains the rebel in me.<\/p>\n<p>A pale though wanton night, dark as it had seemed,<br \/>\neyelids torn from their roots to stare at this midnight peace&#8211;<br \/>\na perfect union of a sky and mountain,<br \/>\nof snow and moon, of white on deep gray-blue steely hue.<\/p>\n<p>The dark solitude laps around my head, my heart;<br \/>\nI sink into the feeling of shame that cold nights had once blown apart.<br \/>\nWhat is the universal law that takes away those shattered dreams<br \/>\nthat teach one to prepare for those empty<br \/>\nyearning years we dread?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t give in to the laugh, the pale sky.<br \/>\nThese unsatisified eyelids close in defiance of the beauty<br \/>\nthey had previously let in.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all the pale sky<br \/>\nand river beneath this perfect night can threaten.<\/p>\n<p>There is no truth larger than that from which I hide.<br \/>\nThere is no message more meaningful than that given by this night.<br \/>\nI bend beneath a star flecked dream and touch the earth again.<br \/>\nMy pain and hollow breath flicker in the night&#8217;s seductive gaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was midnight and it brimmed over in dark solitude<br \/> as the river flowed to laugh with me.<br \/> Its babbling, raging, thundering heart<br \/> suffocates and sustains the rebel in me.<\/p>\n<p>A pale though wanton night, dark as it had seemed,<br \/> eyelids torn from their roots to stare at this midnight peace&#8211;<br \/> a perfect union of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-kisner-collection","category-nature","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","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=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}