{"id":1192,"date":"2016-03-29T20:57:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T03:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomswritings.lewczyk.net\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2024-08-05T18:29:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T01:29:32","slug":"the-journey-16-lines-new-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"The Journey [New] (16 line poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love is an endless plummet into a dim but sparkling chasm<br \/>\nHand in hand<br \/>\nTrusting the other to hold on tight and not let go<br \/>\nThe destination less important than the journey<\/p>\n<p>Love is a favorite novel, worn from use<br \/>\nDelightful and comforting<br \/>\nEach passage familiar, but with details missed or unremembered<br \/>\nSavoring each line, but eager&nbsp;to turn the page for what comes next<\/p>\n<p>Love is a mad dash at the carnival<br \/>\nFrom ride to ride to ride<br \/>\nAs many as we can before the lights go out and the fair closes<br \/>\nOut of breath, still smiling, long after the music fades from memory<\/p>\n<p>Love is a timeless&nbsp;summer evening<br \/>\nThe sun setting so slowly, it seems to hang in the sky, unmoving<br \/>\nCasting its copper light \u2013 embers visible well after the heat dies away<br \/>\nUntil&nbsp;the welcoming night reaches its fingers to guide us home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love is an endless plummet into a dim but sparkling chasm Hand in hand Trusting the other to hold on tight and not let go The destination less important than the journey Love is a favorite novel, worn from use Delightful and comforting Each passage familiar, but with details missed or unremembered Savoring each line, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=1192\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Journey [New] (16 line poem)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}