{"id":90604,"date":"2021-06-26T12:41:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90604"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:41:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:41:40","slug":"poem-no-1-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-no-1-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem No. 1 Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poem No. 1\u00a0\u00a0 Salt<\/strong><\/p>\n

This morning I had a boiled egg for breakfast<\/p>\n

My daughter forgot to bring me pepper and salt<\/p>\n

It was difficult to swallow and my mind began<\/p>\n

to think about salt \u2013 such a precious commodity<\/p>\n

so important in culinary pursuits!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Loyalty is judged in some cultures by sayings:<\/p>\n

“I have eaten your salt and I will always be true.”<\/p>\n

Once I visited a rock salt mine<\/p>\n

An ancient part of a mountain called Khewda Mine<\/p>\n

In Pakistan \u2013 it is said that Alexander found it!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

All the imported salt to the West is Khewda salt<\/p>\n

But it is called ‘Red Indian Rock Salt’<\/p>\n

The mine is massive and is brightly lit up<\/p>\n

Has its trains, wagons and trucks<\/p>\n

The salt glows in reds, yellows and golds.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It is an impressive art gallery<\/p>\n

Even with a swing bridge across it<\/p>\n

At Christmas time they have<\/p>\n

Christmas trees and a crib<\/p>\n

With Salt Mother Mary and Baby Jesus<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The ingenuity of the carvers an amazing gift<\/p>\n

by the Miners not paid extra to sculpt salt<\/p>\n

in so many shapes, sizes and colours<\/p>\n

The Michel Angelo’s of the Salt World<\/p>\n

I left after buying a salt doll in three colours!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

——-<\/p>\n

Sundar<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poem No. 1\u00a0\u00a0 Salt This morning I had a boiled egg for breakfast My daughter forgot to bring me pepper and salt It was difficult to swallow and my mind began to think about salt \u2013 such a precious commodity so important in culinary pursuits!…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90604","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\/1703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90662,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90604\/revisions\/90662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}