{"id":122146,"date":"2022-06-26T07:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=122146"},"modified":"2022-06-26T07:50:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:50:27","slug":"23-a-thousand-splendid-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/23-a-thousand-splendid-suns\/","title":{"rendered":"#23- A Thousand Splendid Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An uncanny friendship between two women<\/p>\n<p>Bonded through pain and suffering<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, they escaped, but how and when<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One old and bitter, beaten<\/p>\n<p>The other young, experiencing a summer fling<\/p>\n<p>An uncanny friendship between two women<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The younger one forced into a marriage while pregnant<\/p>\n<p>The older one faced to bite the dust, fuming<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, they escaped, but how and when<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The older one nurtured the latter\u2019s children<\/p>\n<p>The daughter dusted, while the son lavished like a king<\/p>\n<p>And somehow a friendship forged between the women<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tattered clothes of ragged linen<\/p>\n<p>To an orphanage, the young daughter was sent packing<\/p>\n<p>They planned their escape not knowing when<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Laila and Mariam had come to their decision<\/p>\n<p>Laila finally escaped with her summer fling<\/p>\n<p>An uncanny friendship between the two women<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, they escaped, but not with Mariam<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>This verse is written as a Villanelle, 5 tercets and one Quatrain with a limited Rhyme scheme- the tercets following aba, while the quatrain follows abaa.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An uncanny friendship between two women Bonded through pain and suffering Eventually, they escaped, but how and when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12,2114,441,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122146","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\/3849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122168,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122146\/revisions\/122168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}