{"id":109303,"date":"2022-06-25T12:51:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109303"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:04:21","slug":"life-imitates-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/life-imitates-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Imitates Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woe to those who oppress others.<br \/>\nHistory won&#8217;t repeat itself.<br \/>\nA New World without white supremacy. <\/p>\n<p>2123 year of Jubilee.<br \/>\nLife imitates art, you see.<br \/>\n&#8220;Never again&#8221; will be our plea.<\/p>\n<p>Women are born free, they rule with glee.<br \/>\ndedication, liberation, manifestation of our dreams.<br \/>\nWe paint the art of our tomorrows.<\/p>\n<p>Our daughter&#8217;s continued the fight.<br \/>\nDemocracy is sophisticated wear her heels.<br \/>\nLady liberty is not blind to injustice.<br \/>\nNow we can see.<\/p>\n<p>MAGA laws Jim Crow is dead.<br \/>\nPosterity is peace and forages the journey ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t think for one moment evil not lurk.<br \/>\nAround pulpit of vengeance and smirk&#8217;<br \/>\nOne hundred years ago we did avert.<\/p>\n<p>The conquest to control and defeat with wars.<br \/>\nThe earth rebuilt it&#8217;s fortress of hope.<\/p>\n<p>Hate closed it doors.<br \/>\nIt was a dying cause.<br \/>\nIts in vogue to strive for compacity to love, <\/p>\n<p>Children are safe today; 100 year ago the guns were lost.<br \/>\nWeapons are not used today, they&#8217;ve been outlawed with the KKK.<\/p>\n<p>We are healing our nations with our neighbors we lend a helping hand.<br \/>\nGoodness and mercy will follow as long as there is life no the land.<\/p>\n<p>No, is the answer to the question &#8220;how do I control your life.&#8221;<br \/>\nOur currency is gladness with that we have all we need.<\/p>\n<p>We heeded the cry for justice for every, human, men, women, faith and creed.<br \/>\nToday we dare not stumble repeating the hegemonic ways of the past. <\/p>\n<p>In the words of MLking. Thank God we are &#8220;Free at Last..&#8221;<br \/>\nForget the failure of the past. Moving forward is our only task. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woe to those who oppress others. History won&#8217;t repeat itself. A New World without white supremacy. 2123 year of Jubilee. Life imitates art, you see. &#8220;Never again&#8221; will be our plea. Women are born free, they rule with glee. dedication, liberation, manifestation of our dreams&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[5050,1173],"class_list":["post-109303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-ashay-speaks","tag-half-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109303","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\/4311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109303"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109919,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109303\/revisions\/109919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}