{"id":18601,"date":"2022-01-12T18:26:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T23:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=18601"},"modified":"2022-02-11T00:35:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T05:35:33","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-lady-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2022\/01\/12\/the-poetry-snapshot-lady-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: Lady Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting is indifferent to your desires.<br \/>\nCareless about the fires ignited for those<br \/>\npeople and places you long for.<\/p>\n<p>She has a cunning style,<br \/>\ncloaked in a fragrance of temptation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18605\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 369px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-18605\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2021-08-05-16_03_23.074-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2021-08-05-16_03_23.074-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2021-08-05-16_03_23.074-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Westchester, New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Waiting is patient,<br \/>\nShe waits until you cannot wait any longer.<br \/>\nThen She grips onto your life<br \/>\nwith a hold that cannot be stronger.<\/p>\n<p>She works universally,<br \/>\nunapologetically,<br \/>\nknows no boundaries,<br \/>\ndancing with our fragile hearts<br \/>\nsimultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting has no intention to comfort you.<br \/>\nNo incentive to soothe your anxious mind<br \/>\nin the intervals of time in between.<br \/>\nFor She holds time in her hand,<br \/>\nelongating it for no reason except for that She can.<\/p>\n<p>She is cruel like that.<br \/>\nWaiting is cruel.<\/p>\n<p>And then<br \/>\njust like that,<br \/>\nShe is gone.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s replaced by a blink of euphoria<br \/>\nin the eyes that meet,<br \/>\na sight of sweet smiles,<br \/>\nstreets coming alive<br \/>\njust for you.<br \/>\nAnd all that time spent waiting<br \/>\nmelts away.<br \/>\nShe\u2019s forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a feeling worth waiting for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting is indifferent to your desires. Careless about the fires ignited for those people and places you long for. She has a cunning style, cloaked in a fragrance of temptation. Waiting is patient, She waits until you cannot wait any longer. Then She grips onto your life with a hold that cannot be stronger. She [&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\/18601"}],"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=18601"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19132,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18601\/revisions\/19132"}],"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=18601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}