{"id":13429,"date":"2020-04-22T10:48:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T14:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=13429"},"modified":"2021-01-09T06:34:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T11:34:01","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-an-interlude-of-solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2020\/04\/22\/the-poetry-snapshot-an-interlude-of-solitude\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: An Interlude of Solitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15087\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 299px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15087\" style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: -1ex;\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"385\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><em>Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is a stillness in solitude that scares people.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s in the silence of your voice,<br \/>\nbecause your thoughts speak for itself.<br \/>\nYour mind starts to wander;<br \/>\nto places you have forgotten,<br \/>\nand spaces you always get lost in.<\/p>\n<p>There is a stillness in solitude that scares people.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s in the safety of human connection.<br \/>\nThe warmth of a hug\u00a0and the love in a kiss,<br \/>\nthat no one wants to let go of.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a feeling that makes you reminiscent,<br \/>\nof an embrace and the loss of innocence.<\/p>\n<p>There is a stillness in solitude that scares people.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s in the songs that bring you back to your childhood.<br \/>\nWhen you close your eyes and feel the same emotions<br \/>\nafter the hundredth time you listen to it.<br \/>\nA melody from that drive with your friends,<br \/>\nand a beat worth dancing till the weekend ends.<\/p>\n<p>There is a stillness in solitude that scares people.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s in the stories you have collected,<br \/>\nthat you have no one to share with.<br \/>\nThe experiences you wish to tell others,<br \/>\nso you can relive your happy moments,<br \/>\ngive back a praise worth notice,<br \/>\nand forgive with sincere condolence.<\/p>\n<p>There is a stillness in solitude that scares people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a stillness in solitude that scares people. It&#8217;s in the silence of your voice, because your thoughts speak for itself. Your mind starts to wander; to places you have forgotten, and spaces you always get lost in. There is a stillness in solitude that scares people. It&#8217;s in the safety of human connection. [&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\/13429"}],"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=13429"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15088,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions\/15088"}],"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=13429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}