{"id":3806,"date":"2010-12-07T17:16:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T22:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/3806\/inside-of-me-poetryphoto\/"},"modified":"2010-12-07T17:16:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T22:16:20","slug":"inside-of-me-poetryphoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/3806\/inside-of-me-poetryphoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside of Me (Poetry\/Photo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s882.photobucket.com\/albums\/ac23\/BywaysPhotos\/Pond%20Springtime\/?action=view&amp;current=DescansoGardens4-6-10005.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i882.photobucket.com\/albums\/ac23\/BywaysPhotos\/Pond%20Springtime\/DescansoGardens4-6-10005.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: &#039;comic sans ms&#039;, sans-serif\"><em><strong>Inside of Me<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">These eyes that welcome<br \/>\nthe morning sun,<br \/>\nlooking forward<br \/>\nto the day ahead<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t mask or contain<br \/>\nthe emotions within;<br \/>\nsometimes happy,<br \/>\nsometimes sad,<br \/>\nso many feelings inside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For my eyes are the mirror<br \/>\nof my feelings inside,<br \/>\nemotions that can<br \/>\nleave me quite spent,<br \/>\ntears welling up<br \/>\nand spilling over,<br \/>\ntears of sadness,<br \/>\ntears of joy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And at those times<br \/>\nwhen I just can&#8217;t contain<br \/>\nthose feelings inside,<br \/>\nthe happy and the sad,<br \/>\nI remember those things<br \/>\nthat I love to do best,<br \/>\nand step out of myself<br \/>\nonce again and find me,<br \/>\nmy best friend,<br \/>\nand we go for a walk,<br \/>\nmy best friend and me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We find a quiet spot,<br \/>\nat the edge of the pond<br \/>\nwatching the ducks<br \/>\nand the leaves as they fall.<br \/>\nAnd we reflect on the day,<br \/>\nand I write the words down,<br \/>\nall I wanted to say.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And in those moments<br \/>\nall the opposites inside,<br \/>\nthe emotions that conflicted<br \/>\nand tugged at my heart,<br \/>\nresolve themselves<br \/>\nin the words on the page;<br \/>\nand I put them away<br \/>\nfor safekeeping,<br \/>\nembracing each one<br \/>\nthe happy, the sad,<br \/>\nmy emotions all.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span style=\"font-size: medium\">(c) bak 12-7-10<br \/>\nbarbara kausteklis<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Written for Legacy Writers II<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside of Me These eyes that welcome the morning sun, looking forward to the day ahead can&#8217;t mask or contain the emotions within; sometimes happy, sometimes sad, so many feelings inside. For my eyes are the mirror of my feelings inside, emotions that can leave me quite spent, tears welling up and spilling over, tears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[63,49,95,41],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-barbara-k","tag-friends-2","tag-nature","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}