{"id":138,"date":"2006-08-16T14:57:51","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T13:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexsuze.com\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2006-08-16T14:57:51","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T13:57:51","slug":"blood-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Blood Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img style=\"margin: 12px\" src=\"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/blog\/images\/vfvampgirl.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>This is my second attempt at Haiku, ever. I did a bit of research on Haiku before I started and scared the pants off myself. The complexities of Japanese Haiku (written in Japanese) are a little too much for a beginner like me, so I took the &#8220;if it&#8217;s not written in Japanese you can choose your own rules&#8221; approach. I chose just the 5-7-5 rule \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So I crave your indulgence.<\/p>\n<p>Domo<\/p>\n<p>Alex<\/p>\n<p><em>Pale frosted skin<br \/>\nNeedle sharp white intruders<br \/>\nSudden gasp, tensing<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tear&#8217;s well overflows<br \/>\nEssence ebbs expunging soul<br \/>\nRegret forgotten<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Liberated bride<br \/>\nHungers now as did her groom<br \/>\nSeeks to satiate<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bound in soulnessness<br \/>\nNever dyeing, no more alive<br \/>\nHunger deepest red<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Partners eternal<br \/>\nChained in blackest damnation<br \/>\nCompelled by hot lust<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Helios reviled<br \/>\nMonarchs of inky blackness<br \/>\nFeared dark deities<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Forbidden lovers<br \/>\nSecret objects of desire<br \/>\nAre my depravity<\/em><br \/>\nThe naughty little picture attached to this post is by Victoria Franc\u00c3\u00a9s. You can find lots of her work here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my second attempt at Haiku, ever. I did a bit of research on Haiku before I started and scared the pants off myself. The complexities of Japanese Haiku &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=138\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}