{"id":7146,"date":"2015-06-13T10:24:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2015-06-13T10:24:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:24:12","slug":"poem-1-the-tongue-of-the-calabash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-1-the-tongue-of-the-calabash\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem #1 THE TONGUE OF THE CALABASH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8211;THE TONGUE OF<br \/>\nTHE CALABASH&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>The clock chimes six o&#8217;clock<br \/>\nAs I sit in red palms<br \/>\nUnder a village hut unlocked<br \/>\nAs the palm wine is sipped in dots<br \/>\nFrom my empty belly stock<br \/>\nTo make their feet spread the dust<br \/>\nI leave indelible sounds<br \/>\nIn &#8221;bara drums&#8221;<br \/>\nFor I fade my throat<br \/>\nAt a malian durbar!<br \/>\nTill a bleach invade my skin<br \/>\nWarm yellow I do still remain<br \/>\nTill with age and use I vanish<br \/>\n&#8221;Shegureh&#8221; I do still remain<br \/>\nBy the hands of a sierra leonean<br \/>\nTill I am shrouded<br \/>\nI still count the &#8221;Tourou women&#8221; hairs<br \/>\nThat I&#8217;m a headgear!<br \/>\nWith all my blessings<br \/>\nIn the forest must I be hidden?<br \/>\nO! Africa!<br \/>\nThe warehouse of the seeker!<br \/>\nWhen the universe stood from words<br \/>\nThen I began swinging on trees for the best<br \/>\nThat my people shall be fed<br \/>\nFor I bow before you with ease!<br \/>\nLet not the black soil repent<br \/>\nAs I charge your souls<br \/>\nTo rise over the fence<br \/>\nI hold my tongue!<br \/>\nKofi Acquah&#8212;&#8211;(C)2015<br \/>\nAll Copyrights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8211;THE TONGUE OF THE CALABASH&#8212;&#8211; The clock chimes six o&#8217;clock As I sit in red palms Under a village hut unlocked As the palm wine is sipped in dots From my empty belly stock To make their feet spread the dust I leave indelible sounds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","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\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7166,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions\/7166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}