{"id":7242,"date":"2015-06-13T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=7242"},"modified":"2015-06-13T10:34:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:34:18","slug":"poem-2-wild-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-2-wild-falcons\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem #2 WILD FALCONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8211;WILD FALCONS&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Within the spate of the day<br \/>\nThe stony hearted falcons<br \/>\nTrain to trace their prey<\/p>\n<p>They add to and multiply with haste<br \/>\nThe looks and demeanor of the day<br \/>\nThat they spread their wings in darkness&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Never do they stretch their necks backward<br \/>\nTo see and suck the thick milk flowing and packed<br \/>\nFor they never mind<br \/>\nThey never casted their eyes on the brighter shadows<br \/>\nLet alone the fallen words<\/p>\n<p>For they say;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The best are our doings<br \/>\nEven if it&#8217;s a coup&#8217; lets group<br \/>\nWe swim in the sea of boredom<br \/>\nYet we won&#8217;t droop<br \/>\nTake away your law<br \/>\nLest we break your jaw&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They pamper blasphemy<br \/>\nStrap it to their backs<br \/>\nTo sip on the journey of thirst!<br \/>\nForced to stressing on your past flaws<br \/>\nSo you fall<br \/>\nYes! So you fall to put up their wings<\/p>\n<p>All these I saw<br \/>\nJust when the bell rang in my ears<br \/>\nThat seeing them I am vigillant!<br \/>\n&#8221;They are the Wild Falcons&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    (KOFI ACQUAH)<\/p>\n<p>(C)All Copyrights Reserved-2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8211;WILD FALCONS&#8212;&#8211; Within the spate of the day The stony hearted falcons Train to trace their prey They add to and multiply with haste The looks and demeanor of the day That they spread their wings in darkness&#8212;&#8211; Never do they stretch their necks backward&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242","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=7242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7264,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242\/revisions\/7264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}