Hour Nineteen \u2013 There are so many nature poems out there. Our prompt for this hour of the night is to write a poem for a city, real or imagined.<\/p>\n
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My Tale of Two Cities<\/span><\/p>\n Two homes have I, they\u2019re oceans apart<\/p>\n Two cities, not one, I\u2019ll say from the start<\/p>\n Two cultures, so diverse and different at first<\/p>\n Together, however, they quench my thirst.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Calcutta in Bengal, the City of Joy<\/p>\n I breathe in the grime, the dust, the whole<\/p>\n Rest my weariness on her ample bosom<\/p>\n She rocks me alive and soothes my soul.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Glasgow then, my home of choice<\/p>\n Where we have put down roots for many years<\/p>\n And raised our child with a Scottish voice<\/p>\n With folk so friendly after chips and beers<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There\u2019s a thread that runs through both<\/p>\n A thread that isn\u2019t just me<\/p>\n The parallels are there, an historical oath<\/p>\n That most of you have yet to see.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Scottish Cemetery in the heart of Calcutta<\/p>\n The Tagore Society in Glasgow\u2019s core<\/p>\n The two bards have songs in common<\/p>\n Paisley, football, jute and more.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wouldn\u2019t it be grand then?<\/p>\n If I could blend the two<\/p>\n Take the best out of both these cities<\/p>\n And create for me a utopia new.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hour Nineteen \u2013 There are so many nature poems out there. Our prompt for this hour of the night is to write a poem for a city, real or imagined. My Tale of Two Cities Two homes have I, they\u2019re oceans apart Two cities,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119903","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\/1430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124293,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119903\/revisions\/124293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}