Prompt 12<\/p>\n
(Write about a gathering with others.)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The harvest was ripe and gold<\/p>\n What a gathering behold<\/p>\n The sky was gay, and colors merry<\/p>\n A romantic pink, a scarlet cherry<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All gathered to celebrate<\/p>\n Sweat of toil but fickle fate<\/p>\n Had something else in store<\/p>\n Shrieks of pain, cries of gore<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rain had showered them with grain<\/p>\n Bullets fired shooting pain<\/p>\n Groups of innocents huddled in fear<\/p>\n To jump in wells or swallow a tear<\/p>\n Children sobbed and clung to breasts<\/p>\n Mother’s stricken, men were prest<\/p>\n But Dyer had kept on firing<\/p>\n His selfish heart, ne’er tiring<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Like a bloodbath to pour<\/p>\n Silence resounding ever more<\/p>\n Rivers of shame, of ghastly pain<\/p>\n Would not claim such unjust gain<\/p>\n Blooming blood of innocents slain<\/p>\n Booming guns, horrific refrain<\/p>\n No matter what time, what the place<\/p>\n This hardened brutal truth I face<\/p>\n ’twas nothing but a glaring preface<\/p>\n Of a bloody<\/p>\n heartless<\/p>\n massacre<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ***The refrence here is to the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 13th April, 1919<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prompt 12 (Write about a gathering with others.) The harvest was ripe and gold What a gathering behold The sky was gay, and colors merry A romantic pink, a scarlet cherry All gathered to celebrate Sweat of toil but fickle fate Had something…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121819","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\/1596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121819"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124817,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121819\/revisions\/124817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}