{"id":13098,"date":"2020-03-18T16:01:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=13098"},"modified":"2021-01-09T07:36:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T12:36:49","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-the-lotus-perspective-of-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2020\/03\/18\/the-poetry-snapshot-the-lotus-perspective-of-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: The Lotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaos is grasping for water when you&#8217;re drowning,<br \/>\nbut only swallowing muddy water.<br \/>\nIt feeds off this fear and thrives in uncertainty.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13099\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 329px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13099\" style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: -1ex;\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lotus-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lotus-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lotus-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lotus-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lotus.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><em>Lotus by Maria Venardis\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You stand by the edge,<br \/>\nlooking out at the pond, patiently.<br \/>\nToday is when the lotus begins to bloom.<br \/>\nThe only flower to bloom petal by petal.<br \/>\nLike the consistency of flowering,<br \/>\nyou like predicting the future<br \/>\nand staying on track.<\/p>\n<p>A large lily pad is by your feet.<br \/>\nYou pay attention to it,<br \/>\nbut keep your distance.<br \/>\nAnd then a Child steps on.<br \/>\nFearlessly and effortlessly,<br \/>\nwithout a second thought.<br \/>\nFor a moment, this Child was God.<\/p>\n<p>The Child looks up directly at you,<br \/>\nnot with any sense of urgency,<br \/>\nbut as if warning you about what comes next.<br \/>\nBecause God cannot be blindsided.<br \/>\nThe Child dances off the water lily,<br \/>\nand you are still caught off guard.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to look past your concentrated fear of chaos<br \/>\nyou jump into the pond for rescue.<br \/>\nBut your disarray only drags you further down.<br \/>\nEven in the muddiest of waters,<br \/>\na lotus finds the graceful power to blossom.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<\/em>You watch the Child flow through this chaos;<br \/>\nunbothered and elegantly just like the lotus,<br \/>\nand you are rescued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaos is grasping for water when you&#8217;re drowning, but only swallowing muddy water. It feeds off this fear and thrives in uncertainty. You stand by the edge, looking out at the pond, patiently. Today is when the lotus begins to bloom. The only flower to bloom petal by petal. Like the consistency of flowering, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2205,"featured_media":13473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,15,1372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13098"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15089,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098\/revisions\/15089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}