{"id":23640,"date":"2022-09-19T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T05:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/?p=23640"},"modified":"2022-10-25T12:37:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T07:07:13","slug":"two-poems-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/two-poems-sunshine\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems: &#8216;A room of one&#8217;s own&#8217; &#038; &#8216;Sunshine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A room of one&#8217;s own<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You couldn&#8217;t begin to say the self<br \/>\nBefore someone helps you finish \u2014<br \/>\nSelf-centred<br \/>\nSelf-serving<br \/>\nSelfish<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunshine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1<br \/>\nIt isn&#8217;t easy<br \/>\nThe topsoil of life<br \/>\nhardens<br \/>\nFlyaway seeds<br \/>\nof friendship, incidentally encountered<br \/>\nthat just a few years ago<br \/>\nwould have grown owing<br \/>\nto the spring of early youth and sunshine<br \/>\nof attention uninterrupted by shadows<br \/>\nof looming timelines. When time was still<br \/>\nlanguid. And heart open<br \/>\nNow, fall through<br \/>\nthe cracks and wither<br \/>\nwithout taking any root<br \/>\nIt isn&#8217;t easy<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nAs the possibilities<br \/>\nturn brittle and the self-description<br \/>\nsettles in, and my bark thickens<br \/>\nI miss you, and the liberties you took<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Cover Image:&nbsp;Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@sample_in_photography?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Lucia Macedo<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/alOKrdPSc6U\">Unsplash<\/a> &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A room of one&#8217;s own You couldn&#8217;t begin to say the self Before someone helps you finish \u2014 Self-centred Self-serving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":23641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3401,3683],"tags":[965,3732,402,3734,3735,1589,3733,25,1460],"class_list":{"0":"post-23640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-categories","8":"category-fiction-poetry","9":"category-mental-health-and-sexuality-2","10":"tag-childhood","11":"tag-early-youth","12":"tag-friendship","13":"tag-perception","14":"tag-reminiscence","15":"tag-self","16":"tag-self-expression-2","17":"tag-sexualities","18":"tag-time"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23882,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23640\/revisions\/23882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}