{"id":2765,"date":"2015-04-17T00:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T00:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2015-04-17T02:22:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T02:22:46","slug":"paradise-tossed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/paradise-tossed\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise Tossed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hold my own hand<\/p>\n<p>Walking on cracked dreams<\/p>\n<p>They poke and stroke upward<\/p>\n<p>Soft and hardly in heaven<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Walking through the undergrowth<\/p>\n<p>Whispers tickling ears with frosty bites<\/p>\n<p>Texture everywhere, in on everything<\/p>\n<p>All the skin and light and soulful misty mights<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sights sensing my sensory salutations<\/p>\n<p>Tempered into being with my growing wonder<\/p>\n<p>Capturing stars in human shaped jars<\/p>\n<p>Seeing into the nothing of deep sleep<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Clouds rule here on high<\/p>\n<p>Soft and mellow soundboards to our whim<\/p>\n<p>Lightening the load for each individual soul<\/p>\n<p>Carpeting together the woven wandering<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dreams may come and rise and grow<\/p>\n<p>Strangely changing oneness into us<\/p>\n<p>Lest eternity ebbs for nothing<\/p>\n<p>Flowing origin into our manifolds<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My perspective\u00a0is granular here<\/p>\n<p>In the abyss of reflection and shapelessness<\/p>\n<p>Tired continuity of bloody watered soil<\/p>\n<p>Tearing myself from my self<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for a you called true<\/p>\n<p>Insisting hands held are ever together<\/p>\n<p>Wishing paths walked point forward<\/p>\n<p>Feeling this frictioned existence<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This heaven seems hellishly born<\/p>\n<p>Unavoidable and unstoppable<\/p>\n<p>Burning all so that <em>next<\/em> might be<\/p>\n<p>Destructive creation we are and see<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lost and tossed utopian bliss<\/p>\n<p>This otherness that makes all of this<\/p>\n<p>Infinite detail in nothingness<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of this fatal kiss<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Raymond Johnsen Lucas<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hold my own hand Walking on cracked dreams They poke and stroke upward Soft and hardly in heaven &nbsp; Walking through the undergrowth Whispers tickling ears with frosty bites Texture everywhere, in on everything All the skin and light &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/paradise-tossed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4253,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-edition","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}