{"id":10300,"date":"2015-06-13T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T04:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=10300"},"modified":"2015-06-13T17:55:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T21:55:23","slug":"poem-9-the-ego-trip-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-9-the-ego-trip-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem #9 THE EGO TRIP OF AFRICA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>______THE EGO TRIP OF AFRICA______<\/p>\n<p>I lit the last candle for &#8221;imani&#8221;(faith)<br \/>\nFor the moon<br \/>\nHas shadowed the sun<br \/>\nOn the final night of &#8221;kwanzaa&#8221;_______<\/p>\n<p>For thousands of years<br \/>\nHistory and faith<br \/>\nHave been expressed in::<br \/>\nArt,music,storyand song<\/p>\n<p>O Africa! Black is your beauty<br \/>\nYou tell the world of it through your birth<br \/>\nRed is the blood of your ancestors<br \/>\nAnd green,the fertility of your land________<\/p>\n<p>The presence of the white pawder<br \/>\nForces this land of our pride<br \/>\nTo undergo<br \/>\nIn the last generation change<br \/>\nBut as we sit<br \/>\nBeside the &#8221;3sutsen&#8221; to comb our hair_____<\/p>\n<p>We continue to celebrate our joys<br \/>\nAnd uphold ourselves<br \/>\nIn troubled times<br \/>\nWith our tradition and faith<\/p>\n<p>(C)2015 All Rights Reserved<br \/>\nKofi Acquah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>______THE EGO TRIP OF AFRICA______ I lit the last candle for &#8221;imani&#8221;(faith) For the moon Has shadowed the sun On the final night of &#8221;kwanzaa&#8221;_______ For thousands of years History and faith Have been expressed in:: Art,music,storyand song O Africa! Black is your beauty You&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300","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\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10309,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300\/revisions\/10309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}