{"id":97383,"date":"2012-10-03T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T19:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/97383\/fade-3\/"},"modified":"2012-10-03T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T19:23:06","slug":"fade-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/97383\/fade-3\/","title":{"rendered":"BEFORE THEY FADE AWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i148.photobucket.com\/albums\/s4\/barbkaus\/Waimea%20Valley%20Botanical%20Gardens\/Beginning%20May%2010\/Beginning%201-1-11\/Beginning%209-14-12\/Penandpaper.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"5\">BEFORE THEY FADE AWAY<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"5\">Reaching out into<br \/>\nthat sometimes<br \/>\nrather blank space,<br \/>\nI try to catch them,<br \/>\nto make them mine<br \/>\nbefore they fade away,<br \/>\nwords and lines tumbling<br \/>\nand tripping and falling down<br \/>\nand making little sense<br \/>\nall by themselves;<br \/>\njust random thoughts<br \/>\nalmost begging for company,<br \/>\nto be put together<br \/>\ninto something new,<br \/>\ninto something meaningful,<br \/>\nsomething that makes<br \/>\nsome sense to at least<\/font><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"5\"> one other soul.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"5\">And then,<br \/>\nas if by magic,<br \/>\nit finally happens.<br \/>\nA dose of encouragement,<br \/>\nfriends who share<br \/>\ntheir hearts<br \/>\nand their love<br \/>\nand their sadness<br \/>\nand their joy.<br \/>\nThe words and the lines,<br \/>\nmeaning very little<br \/>\nall alone and by themselves,<br \/>\ncome together<br \/>\nand begin to flow<br \/>\nthrough the pen<br \/>\nand onto this blank canvas,<br \/>\nwords straight from my heart<br \/>\nand shared with friends<br \/>\nwho, in turn,<br \/>\nshare their words<\/font><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"5\"> <\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"5\">and their hearts with me.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"5\">(c) barbara kausteklis 10-2-12<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"5\">Written for CPC Wonderful Wednesday &#8220;Meet and Greet.&#8221;<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"5\">http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/96916\/wonderful-wednesday-meet-greet-poets\/<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEFORE THEY FADE AWAY Reaching out into that sometimes rather blank space, I try to catch them, to make them mine before they fade away, words and lines tumbling and tripping and falling down and making little sense all by themselves; just random thoughts almost begging for company, to be put together into something new, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,21,29],"tags":[63,159,3909,5705,4],"class_list":["post-97383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-lifestyles","category-literature","category-poems","tag-barbara-k","tag-cpc","tag-magic-monday","tag-meet-and-greet","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97383","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=97383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}