{"id":741,"date":"2013-08-12T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2013-08-03T10:19:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T17:19:25","slug":"741","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"Illuminating Thoughts by Colleen Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ILLUMINATING THOUGHTS<br \/>\n<em>Psyche\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Remorse<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Each night as cool and black as weighted silk<br \/>\nhe came to me, enveloped me, loved me<br \/>\nEach night he kissed me, whispered<br \/>\nthen faded with the stars<\/p>\n<p>I awoke to daylight in a fever<br \/>\ndevoured the sight of every man<br \/>\nsure that one would claim me<br \/>\nwaiting silently for my dream<\/p>\n<p>The marketplace gossips laughed<br \/>\nA hidden husband who came in dreams?<br \/>\nHow could I be a proper woman?<br \/>\nHow could he support a family?<\/p>\n<p>I never felt his gaze<br \/>\nYet at night his heat consumed me<br \/>\nI began to burn in darkness<br \/>\na brand never doused<\/p>\n<p>Blinded by my need<br \/>\nI revealed my lover to the light<br \/>\nWinged, warm, too pure for mortal form<br \/>\nEros awoke, scolded me, flew from my embrace<\/p>\n<p>I searched for him, followed him,<br \/>\nsuffered feats to be with him<br \/>\nand in the end the love I kindled<br \/>\nburned me through and through<\/p>\n<p>I could not stay with people<br \/>\nafter Eros took my heart<br \/>\nI only wanted love<br \/>\nnot to rival a god\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s splendor<\/p>\n<p>Was it knowing godhood<br \/>\nhe had tried to hide from me<br \/>\nor the knowledge of my lost humanity<br \/>\nthat I have learned to mourn?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/650px-Hermitageoraziogentileschicupidandpsyche.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-742\" alt=\"650px-Hermitageoraziogentileschicupidandpsyche\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/650px-Hermitageoraziogentileschicupidandpsyche-300x276.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/650px-Hermitageoraziogentileschicupidandpsyche-300x276.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/650px-Hermitageoraziogentileschicupidandpsyche.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ILLUMINATING THOUGHTS Psyche\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Remorse Each night as cool and black as weighted silk he came to me, enveloped me, loved me Each night he kissed me, whispered then faded with the stars I awoke to daylight in a fever devoured the sight of every man sure that one would claim me waiting silently for my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}