{"id":261,"date":"2020-11-18T01:19:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=261"},"modified":"2020-11-20T02:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T02:10:26","slug":"insomnia-and-blank-morning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/insomnia-and-blank-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Insomnia and Blank Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Insomnia and the Blank Morning<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(A Formal Syllabic Verse)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ears vibrate at the waves of birds chirping\u00a0<br>The lavender tint of dawn through glass\u00a0<br>A reminder of the incessant earth\u00a0<br>Prompting fear; left a depleted mind mass\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Productive; as factual as a mermaid\u00a0<br>A notion of dozing desiccated\u00a0<br>Hence, a dry setting and heavy mental fade\u00a0<br>Useless alertness to stay created\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pupils fail to experience peace\u00a0<br>Burning desire for shut eye\u00a0<br>Buzzing like a large beehive of queen bees\u00a0<br>Thoughts continue to fly sky-high\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daydreaming in the black dark\u00a0<br>For a moment of pure silence\u00a0<br>Mind, failing to cease a bark\u00a0<br>Veins bursting in heavy eyes; dense\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This mental state far beyond reach\u00a0<br>The room fills with several beams of sun\u00a0<br>Sucked of life; victim to a leech\u00a0<br>Solo breathing; lack of anyone\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Excess conscious darkness\u00a0<br>Not enough conscious light\u00a0<br>Not enough unconscious darkness\u00a0<br>Excess unconscious light\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nInsomnia and the Blank Morning&nbsp; (A Formal Syllabic Verse)&nbsp; Ears vibrate at the waves of birds chirping\u00a0The lavender tint of dawn through glass\u00a0A reminder of the incessant earth\u00a0Prompting fear; left a depleted mind mass\u00a0 Productive; as factual as a mermaid\u00a0A&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/insomnia-and-blank-morning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Insomnia and Blank Morning&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/no-intro.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-261","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261\/revisions\/386"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}