{"id":2296,"date":"2016-05-05T15:08:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T14:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2016-05-07T09:29:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T08:29:03","slug":"michelle-fae-d-souza-2016-basil-bunting-poetry-award-young-persons-prize-winner-15-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=2296","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Fae D Souza <h6>2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person\u2019s Prize Winner, 15 \u2013 19<\/h6>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Flip Side<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am awake.<br \/>\nI open my watery eyes<br \/>\nTrapped.<br \/>\nI am not<br \/>\nWhat I wanted to be.<br \/>\nI am<br \/>\nLost.<br \/>\nI am no longer<br \/>\nA heart with hope.<br \/>\nI am<br \/>\nScared.<br \/>\nI am not<br \/>\nIn control<br \/>\nMy whole body is<br \/>\nTrembling.<br \/>\nI see my enemies<br \/>\nLeaping even further than I imagined<br \/>\nMy progress has been<br \/>\nThrown to the dumps<br \/>\nAnd all my failures have been<br \/>\nSprouting spontaneously like poppies after a harsh winter<br \/>\nMy enthusiasm is<br \/>\nDwindling.<br \/>\nObstacles and hurdles are<br \/>\nEverywhere,<br \/>\nAnywhere.<br \/>\nBut everything can change.<br \/>\nEverything can turn around.<\/p>\n<p>Now Read this poem from bottom to top<br \/>\nLet\u2019s check out the flip side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flip Side I am awake. I open my watery eyes Trapped. I am not What I wanted to be. I am Lost. I am no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[468,473,475,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}