{"id":3324,"date":"2024-10-25T17:11:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T22:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:59:42","slug":"reflections-of-a-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2024\/10\/reflections-of-a-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections of a Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Whenever you gaze at me<br> I don\u2019t show it,<br> but my clear lake ripples<br>I yearn for you<br> but hold back<br> and secretly I scheme<br>If I could make you see<br> how lovely you are<br> then you might become foolish<br> enough to kiss me<br>I could turn you into a Narcisa,<br> the way we fondly gaze<br> at one another,<br> and then hold you fast<br>I honestly reveal your beauty,<br> but on closer inspection<br> you realize my cheap amalgam<br>I confess there are others<br> whose prettiness I\u2019ve winked at<br>You feel betrayed by your vanity<br>I\u2019m stunned by your ravishing exit<br>The bounty of your presence was always true<br>I remain, a picture of hollowness,<br> my silver tongue calling after you<br> only to be tantalized by echoes<br> of remembrance <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever you gaze at me I don\u2019t show it, but my clear lake ripplesI yearn for you but hold back and secretly I schemeIf I could make you see how lovely you are then you might become foolish enough to kiss meI could turn you into a Narcisa, the way we fondly gaze at one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-heart-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3738,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}