{"id":22715,"date":"2016-08-13T17:31:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22715"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:31:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:31:37","slug":"planting-the-flag-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/planting-the-flag-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting the Flag  #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planting the Flag<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have no flag but yours to claim<\/p>\n<p>Our fathers and lovers fallen<\/p>\n<p>We weep and bury our sons<\/p>\n<p>Yet you hand us this flag<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brother, what do you know of us<\/p>\n<p>We are different, not like you<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I see no flag that speaks of love<\/p>\n<p>And earth and peace<\/p>\n<p>Molasses skinned women<\/p>\n<p>Have no flag to keep them safe<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stolen daughters, murdered children<\/p>\n<p>Where is their flag<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With your flag you claim the moon<\/p>\n<p>The mountains, the oceans<\/p>\n<p>The plains, the forest<\/p>\n<p>Winter, a flower, a breeze has no flag<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is no flag to help me read<\/p>\n<p>To sow the seeds and dream the songs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am weary of your flag that<\/p>\n<p>Tells our sisters what to wear, when to marry<\/p>\n<p>It is a ruse, a con, more crazed pride<\/p>\n<p>Defending glory with eternal battles<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your flag does not remember us<\/p>\n<p>But bullies and boasts its&#8217; warning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planting the Flag &nbsp; I have no flag but yours to claim Our fathers and lovers fallen We weep and bury our sons Yet you hand us this flag &nbsp; Brother, what do you know of us We are different, not like you &nbsp; I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22715","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22758,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22715\/revisions\/22758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}