{"id":2076,"date":"2007-01-11T02:34:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T10:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2022-05-22T23:42:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T06:42:33","slug":"trajectories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/11\/trajectories\/","title":{"rendered":"Trajectories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without warning,<br \/>\nat least any that I&#8217;d heeded,<br \/>\nthe year was buried into the past,<br \/>\na remnant of my spirit&#8217;s growth,<br \/>\na stepping stone along the way,<br \/>\na shining note on the stave of life.<\/p>\n<p>I latch onto memories, sort and distribute,<br \/>\nreaffirm and adjust,<br \/>\nand figure the trajectories onto which<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve launched myself.<\/p>\n<p>Open doors, closed doors;<br \/>\nsome in front, some behind,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m lost in the present moment<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; directionless &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>calculating life&#8217;s trajectories<br \/>\nin this tempest of a night.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d glance askancely,<br \/>\nthe calculations leading nowhere;<br \/>\nCalculations become the empty dreams<br \/>\nthat fade away<br \/>\nleading me not to some far-flung dream illusion<br \/>\nin which I&#8217;d frolic,<br \/>\nbut to where I am,<br \/>\nwhere I&#8217;m going,<\/p>\n<p>into another year;<br \/>\nA trajectory<br \/>\ntowards tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without warning,<br \/> at least any that I&#8217;d heeded,<br \/> the year was buried into the past,<br \/> a remnant of my spirit&#8217;s growth,<br \/> a stepping stone along the way,<br \/> a shining note on the stave of life.<\/p>\n<p>I latch onto memories, sort and distribute,<br \/> reaffirm and adjust,<br \/> and figure the trajectories onto which<br \/> I&#8217;ve [&#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-2076","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\/2076","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=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}