{"id":1674,"date":"2023-11-17T15:54:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T20:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2023-11-17T15:54:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T20:54:45","slug":"blue-is-a-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/blue-is-a-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue is a Being"},"content":{"rendered":"
Eat the seed of blue and it grows in you.<\/span><\/p>\n ~Karine’s dream<\/span><\/p>\n Am I awake or asleep?<\/p>\n Unworthiness a salt upon my tongue, as Blue draws near, a sphere of light My words, blue swallows, dart across her deepening dress.<\/p>\n Not\u2014What ocean do you carry on your hip? But, Where does the moral world begin?<\/p>\n Leaning over the earth in me, the birth of me, My legs still pressed against the ground, my cheek upon her hem<\/p>\n until the dawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eat the seed of blue and it grows in you. ~Karine’s dream Am I awake or asleep? Unworthiness a salt upon my tongue, I kneel as Blue draws near, a sphere of light so tall I cannot see her face. But her shoulders stretch wide\u2014no wonder they call them wings. My words, blue swallows, dart…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"issue":[289],"coauthors":[363],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nI kneel<\/p>\n
\nso tall I cannot see her face.
\nBut her shoulders stretch wide\u2014no wonder
\nthey call them wings.<\/p>\n
\nWhat heaven do you hail from? What country,
\nsapphire, cerulean?<\/p>\n
\nshe answers space with time: not where but when inner and outer light are one\u2026<\/p>\n