{"id":19121,"date":"2022-02-11T08:21:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T13:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=19121"},"modified":"2022-02-11T00:32:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T05:32:44","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-metamorphosis-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2022\/02\/11\/the-poetry-snapshot-metamorphosis-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: Metamorphosis of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before children start sleeping with memories<br \/>\nto look back on,<br \/>\nA nostalgic vault,<br \/>\nmeant for safekeeping,<br \/>\nbut never with its lock on,<br \/>\nthey can only imagine of what could be.<br \/>\nDreaming of a future where they would see<br \/>\nthe grace of age swept away by the river.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19122\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 346px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-19122\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2Newport-Beach-senior-trip-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2Newport-Beach-senior-trip-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2Newport-Beach-senior-trip-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2Newport-Beach-senior-trip-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Newport Beach, CA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tides of childhood crash on shore,<br \/>\nAs early bonds forge and turn folklore<br \/>\ninto missions to explore;<br \/>\nwith every mention of maturity,<br \/>\nyouthful optimism is deplored<br \/>\nto have crayoned ideas be more respected,<br \/>\nand backyard ponds take us around the world.<\/p>\n<p>We try to grow up,<br \/>\nin hopes that age will let us go.<br \/>\nStop gripping us to our seat.<br \/>\nLocking us at home.<\/p>\n<p>When will you realize age is your protector?<br \/>\nA collector of laughter,<br \/>\nadvocator of reckless spur.<br \/>\nA metamorphosis of time,<br \/>\nkeeping your life from accelerating,<br \/>\nuntil you cannot make anything of the blur.<\/p>\n<p>When that time comes, oh what a wonderous transformation!<br \/>\nVibrant and thunderous, with no hesitation.<br \/>\nA breakthrough and bestowment,<br \/>\nfrom hurrying to grow up to savoring every moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before children start sleeping with memories to look back on, A nostalgic vault, meant for safekeeping, but never with its lock on, they can only imagine of what could be. Dreaming of a future where they would see the grace of age swept away by the river. Tides of childhood crash on shore, As early [&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\/19121"}],"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=19121"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19131,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19121\/revisions\/19131"}],"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=19121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}