{"id":256,"date":"2024-12-10T22:34:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T22:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/?page_id=256"},"modified":"2024-12-11T01:28:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T01:28:40","slug":"december-evening","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-7\/december-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"December Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">by George Freek<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I live too much in the past, but it happened so fast,<br \/>\nIn this passing world<br \/>\nthe illusion of the present doesn\u2019t last. My memories are already dry as dust, blown away into the vacuum of eternity.<\/p>\n<p>The stars, as distant<br \/>\nas the dreams of my youth, have hidden scars,<br \/>\nas if they\u2019d been abused.<\/p>\n<p>My lonely maple tree<br \/>\nstands in a freezing wind,<br \/>\na stone-like symbol of grief, naked and bereft<br \/>\nof her once comforting leaves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">George Freek&#8217;s poem &#8220;Enigmatic Variations&#8221; was recently nominated for Best of the Net. His poem &#8220;Night Thoughts&#8221; was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-7\/toc-7\/\">table of contents<\/a> ]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by George Freek &nbsp; I live too much in the past, but it happened so fast, In this passing world the illusion of the present doesn\u2019t last. My memories are already dry as dust, blown away into the vacuum of eternity. The stars, as distant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":0,"parent":247,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-256","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}