{"id":3267,"date":"2018-01-29T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T22:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2018-02-06T06:17:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:17:37","slug":"rainbow-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2018\/01\/29\/rainbow-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol class=\"poem\">\n<li>Roses drip as trembling lip longs for the words to say.<\/li>\n<li>Embers hide the pain inside from fasting, reading, pray.<\/li>\n<li>Sunshine streams from horrid dreams of nowhere left to go.<\/li>\n<li>Clover struck by mournful luck and nowhere left to grow.<\/li>\n<li>Azure skies with teary eyes stare at the door now locked.<\/li>\n<li>Lilacs weep at wounds so deep, love and compassion blocked.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/395309301&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roses drip as trembling lip longs for the words to say. Embers hide the pain inside from fasting, reading, pray. Sunshine streams from horrid dreams of nowhere left to go. Clover struck by mournful luck and nowhere left to grow. Azure skies with teary eyes stare at the door now locked. Lilacs weep at wounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/01\/man-2688702_1920.jpg?fit=1920%2C1276&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-QH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2994,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2016\/10\/02\/flying-to-space\/","url_meta":{"origin":3267,"position":0},"title":"Flying to Space","author":"Kim Siever","date":"2 October 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Flying to space while anchored to ground Wishing for silence but drawn to the sound Sailing the\u00a0ocean while\u00a0anchored to bay Wanting to shout with nothing to say Climbing a mount yet\u00a0nowhere to hold Craving for heat but frozen in cold Running a race yet\u00a0stuck in your stance Hoping to rest\u00a0but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Faith crisis poetry&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Faith crisis poetry","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/category\/poetry\/faith-crisis-poetry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/space-shuttle-992_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C771&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/space-shuttle-992_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C771&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/space-shuttle-992_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C771&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/space-shuttle-992_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C771&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/space-shuttle-992_1920.jpg?fit=1200%2C771&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2933,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2017\/02\/27\/bloody-feast\/","url_meta":{"origin":3267,"position":1},"title":"Bloody Feast","author":"Kim Siever","date":"27 February 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Battered and bruised, pierced for to bleed, Hidden from view under the sheet. 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