{"id":63123,"date":"2020-06-27T10:38:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63123"},"modified":"2020-06-27T14:52:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:52:37","slug":"hour-1-prompt-1-oh-lorde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-1-prompt-1-oh-lorde\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1, Prompt 1 – Oh, Lorde"},"content":{"rendered":"

I met you when I was just 18<\/span><\/p>\n

You were an adult and cities\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

shook when you spoke<\/span><\/p>\n

And I could not see you\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In your perfect, round \u2018fro<\/span><\/p>\n

And your queer, astute blackness<\/span><\/p>\n

I could not yet see myself<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Reminding me that poetry is not a luxury<\/span><\/p>\n

That my life is not a luxury<\/span><\/p>\n

But something carved<\/span><\/p>\n

Something owed\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

to those who need me\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To speak their daring truth<\/span><\/p>\n

Always already lying in wait<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My little candle was too short to burn<\/span><\/p>\n

You grabbed an awl and stabbed me<\/span><\/p>\n

Pushed a new wick into my soft wax<\/span><\/p>\n

Sang to me of burning\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You smelled of mangoes and sweet things<\/span><\/p>\n

And smirked while you did it<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You, dear Audre, ruined me<\/span><\/p>\n

By showing me the truth of<\/span><\/p>\n

Just how powerful and dangerous\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And afraid I should be of nothing<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I met you when I was just 18 You were an adult and cities\u00a0 shook when you spoke And I could not see you\u00a0 In your perfect, round \u2018fro And your queer, astute blackness I could not yet see myself   Reminding me that poetry…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63123","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\/1292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63144,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63123\/revisions\/63144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}