{"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":"

\"city\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Empires<\/h1>\n

by Mike Ambrose<\/p>\n

She is like
\na boy
\nbecoming
\na man,
\ncocooned
\nwithin
\nhis self-spun mortality \u2013
\nProud,
\nfull of
\nhis own myopic sound
\non
\nfinally being fully grown,
\nyet never
\nrealizing
\nthat each
\nhour
\nbrings
\ncloser
\ninevitable
\ndecay \u2013
\nbarely
\nperceptible at first,
\nuntil the
\nmoment comes
\nwhen all
\nthat remains
\nare torn
\nand faded flags
\nlimping
\nat half-mast.<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

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":"

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