{"id":612,"date":"2022-11-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2022-11-24T19:10:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T19:10:20","slug":"poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Unleashing Flames: A Poem Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8230;and if it burns, let it.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Phrase So Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On my bed again I lay.<br>Evening turns to night, where blinds are down<br>and lights are dim from far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I knew how much a song could guide you back to certain days,<br>but guided by a phrase so brief?<br>Not until today.<br>To be this young and miss a youthful love,<br>as if too old to live a free fall moment one has only dreamed.<br>To feel the looseness of those expectations,<br>expecting all that wouldn\u2019t be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s what they say, enjoy your years becoming teen,<br>until the time is yours to say the same<br>to those who wish to come of age, be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though I don\u2019t dislike the present as some may say,<br>what a wish had it become, to relive the mind, a feel, the state,<br>of an I who felt alive and gave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No sight of lights from far away.<br>Night turns into morning, another start to find a better way.<br>A way to make it happen,<br>and to live as though the fear to lose can\u2019t carve away my say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abnormal Simplicity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I always wonder what it\u2019s like to know.<br>To feel the stable grounds built with another,<br>and to trust that floors won\u2019t crash below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hearing stories as I go,<br>in all of them I see the sharing smiles,<br>the dances in the rain.<br>I see how much a vibrant grass of green can make you feel<br>and I suppose those hugs are there to set you free-<br>I pause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To only imagine that normal can be claimed<br>as ease, as certainty and breeze.<br>To me this seems abnormal,<br>I guess simplicity is not for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the contrary, I do know mine.<br>It\u2019s not a yes it\u2019s not a no,<br>it\u2019s the maybe in between.<br>A situation so complex,<br>like endless mind games in a movie scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First one\u2019s warm, almost like home.<br>You start to play with fire<br>so its warmth begins to burn.<br>But the other\u2019s daring, it is foolish,<br>unaccepted, far from reach, it screams concern-<br>I pause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could hate it all I want,<br>then what\u2019s the point of reading with a spoiler?<br>Learning maybes from the start.<br>Being mystery\u2019s exploiter?<br>What\u2019s the point of living, knowing all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and if it burns, let it. A Phrase So Brief On my bed again I lay.Evening turns to night, where blinds are downand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}