{"id":2082,"date":"2013-12-02T03:26:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T03:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2017-07-12T02:51:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T02:51:31","slug":"empires-mike-ambrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/empires-mike-ambrose\/","title":{"rendered":"Empires by Mike Ambrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/city.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1534 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/city-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"city\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/city-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/city-1024x593.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/city.jpg 1223w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/173;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Empires<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Mike Ambrose<\/p>\n<p>She is like<br \/>\na boy<br \/>\nbecoming<br \/>\na man,<br \/>\ncocooned<br \/>\nwithin<br \/>\nhis self-spun mortality \u2013<br \/>\nProud,<br \/>\nfull of<br \/>\nhis own myopic sound<br \/>\non<br \/>\nfinally being fully grown,<br \/>\nyet never<br \/>\nrealizing<br \/>\nthat each<br \/>\nhour<br \/>\nbrings<br \/>\ncloser<br \/>\ninevitable<br \/>\ndecay \u2013<br \/>\nbarely<br \/>\nperceptible at first,<br \/>\nuntil the<br \/>\nmoment comes<br \/>\nwhen all<br \/>\nthat remains<br \/>\nare torn<br \/>\nand faded flags<br \/>\nlimping<br \/>\nat half-mast.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>I am an engineering executive at a New England aerospace company with degrees from the University of New Haven and MIT. I started publishing my poems in 2010 and really enjoy the balance that writing provides in a life that is very exact. In the short time that I have been writing, my work has been published in over a dozen publications includingLucid Rhythms, Corner Club Press, Literary Brushstrokes, Decades Review, Boston Literary Magazine, and Grey Sparrow Journal among other publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is like<br \/>\na boy<br \/>\nbecoming<br \/>\na man,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}