{"id":715,"date":"2018-04-18T14:30:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/?p=715"},"modified":"2018-04-18T18:18:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T18:18:48","slug":"devotion-by-cheyenne-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/2018\/04\/18\/devotion-by-cheyenne-cox\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotion by Cheyenne Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This poem was chosen by our judges as the 1st Place winner in our 5th Annual Poetry Contest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Devotion <\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turn me into something ancient.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speak impressions into my bones<\/p>\n<p>&amp; fossilize them with every<\/p>\n<p>breath.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sacrifice my soul to the stars<\/p>\n<p>before carving my body<\/p>\n<p>into the shape of immortality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Faithfully worship the secrets<\/p>\n<p>held within my flesh and feel<\/p>\n<p>the blood run through my veins<\/p>\n<p>with untold prophecies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Memorize the galaxies that lay<\/p>\n<p>in my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you dare turn away,<\/p>\n<p>even when your heart starts to catch<\/p>\n<p>fire<\/p>\n<p>from how brightly my irises burn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trace the curves of my hands,<\/p>\n<p>the lines in my fingers-<\/p>\n<p>know they hold too much magic<\/p>\n<p>to ever have another intertwined.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turn me into something ancient,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Devour me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-C.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem was chosen by our judges as the 1st Place winner in our 5th Annual Poetry Contest. &nbsp; Devotion &nbsp; Turn me into something ancient. &nbsp; Speak impressions into my bones &amp; fossilize them with every breath. &nbsp; Sacrifice my soul to the stars before carving my body into the shape of immortality. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}