{"id":12534,"date":"2020-04-29T00:46:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T19:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.wordpress.com\/2020\/04\/29\/clarity-napowrimo-day-26\/"},"modified":"2020-08-03T19:49:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T14:19:22","slug":"clarity-napowrimo-day-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/29\/clarity-napowrimo-day-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarity #NaPoWriMo Day 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200427_005311_770-925x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12533\" width=\"298\" height=\"327\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Birds look beautiful flying in the sky<br>Not swarming inside your head<br>Running into each other<br>Destroying when one wrongs another<br>Like the serenity of a clear blue sky<br>The peace of a clear mind<br>Is invaluable<br>Where do you wanna go?<br>What do you want to do?<br>Who do you want to be?<br>All of these questions pop up<br>Like a game of whack-a-mole<br>And just like the game<br>A temporary solution isn&#8217;t gonna keep them suppressed<br>So sit back<br>And work it out<br>Take your time<br>And let the birds find their rhythm<br>Sanity and clarity are different<br>But they rhyme for a reason<br>If there&#8217;s no clarity up there<br>The sheer pandemonium<br>Will weigh you down<br>But fret not<br>Take your time<br>After all, you want to hit those moles<br>So they go down<br>Once and for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Tavleen <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Connect with me on&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tavleen_words\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tavleensoni\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/show\/32793447-tavleen-kaur\">Goodreads<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tavleen-words.tumblr.com\/\">Tumblr<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/29\/clarity-napowrimo-day-26\/#more-12534\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &#10142; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clarity #NaPoWriMo Day 26<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[319,320,349,500,501],"class_list":["post-12534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-writings","tag-napowrimo","tag-napowrimo-2020","tag-poem","tag-write-up","tag-writer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12497,"url":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/21\/your-book-day-16-of-napowrimo\/","url_meta":{"origin":12534,"position":0},"title":"Your Book &#8211; #NaPoWriMo Day 16","date":"April 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The demons inside my heart rage day and night.I purge on paper.In words.It purifies me.And for a moment, I'm reborn. 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