{"id":101032,"date":"2021-06-27T05:02:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101032"},"modified":"2021-06-27T21:58:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T01:58:13","slug":"poem-21-a-tribute-to-langston-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-21-a-tribute-to-langston-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 21: \u00a0A Tribute to Langston Hughes  &#8220;Troubled Clef&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is syncopation<\/p>\n<p>The beat, complete<\/p>\n<p>receiving echoed drums<\/p>\n<p>More<\/p>\n<p>Would you like gifts<\/p>\n<p>extravagant symbols of empty measures<\/p>\n<p>Notes of triumph<\/p>\n<p>as your feet, bare<\/p>\n<p>Make the drumbeat<\/p>\n<p>Glory to the infusion<\/p>\n<p>that continuous pulse<\/p>\n<p>counting years in pain<\/p>\n<p>as the drinks are poured<\/p>\n<p>We remember decrepit shacks<\/p>\n<p>Overflowing<\/p>\n<p>No white man has seen this<\/p>\n<p>In the place<\/p>\n<p>where he fears the moon<\/p>\n<p>At night we are quiet<\/p>\n<p>our Darkness a peace<\/p>\n<p>but our ears pick up the chorus<\/p>\n<p>Waves crying<\/p>\n<p>as we lie in slavery\u2019s sea<\/p>\n<p>Here, the trumpets blare<\/p>\n<p>but the Voice, no one knows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is syncopation The beat, complete receiving echoed drums More Would you like gifts extravagant symbols of empty measures Notes of triumph as your feet, bare Make the drumbeat Glory to the infusion that continuous pulse counting years in pain as the drinks are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101032"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103487,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101032\/revisions\/103487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}