{"id":127684,"date":"2023-09-02T11:49:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127684"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:39:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:39:31","slug":"24-hour-marathon-poem-3-a-tribute-to-langston-hughes-the-lesson-of-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/24-hour-marathon-poem-3-a-tribute-to-langston-hughes-the-lesson-of-night\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Hour Marathon Hour 3: A Tribute to Langston Hughes &#8220;The Lesson of Night&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will carry my dreams<br \/>\nwherever they take me<br \/>\nfor I know not where they go<br \/>\nin my desire for an unplanned flee<\/p>\n<p>My dreams seem immortal<br \/>\nas they taunt and scold<br \/>\nYet laughter&#8217;s breath is not far away<br \/>\nas I shiver in the sunless cold<\/p>\n<p>All those tragic heroes<br \/>\nrendered useless by fate<br \/>\nsend to me a message<br \/>\nthat opens heaven&#8217;s gate<\/p>\n<p>Life seems futile<br \/>\nI, like a finless salmon<br \/>\nswimming hopelessly upstream<br \/>\nleading to famine<\/p>\n<p>The fields of dreams so dreary<br \/>\nlike the shadowy moors<br \/>\nand spine-chilling shriek of wolves<br \/>\nthat only fantasy endures<\/p>\n<p>They keep coming back<br \/>\nas if I will never hold there say<br \/>\nbut now I join them<br \/>\nwith the woolgathers of the day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will carry my dreams wherever they take me for I know not where they go in my desire for an unplanned flee My dreams seem immortal as they taunt and scold Yet laughter&#8217;s breath is not far away as I shiver in the sunless&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3095,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127684","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\/3095"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131984,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127684\/revisions\/131984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}