{"id":95598,"date":"2021-06-26T18:34:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95598"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:34:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:34:58","slug":"hour-ten-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-ten-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Sun and Soul<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All round me are words, and words and words,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">today the world is a little more my own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don\u2019t know politics but I know the names,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">it was hot, so hot, before the eunuchs came.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is this drink but The April sun\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">getting a man to love you is easy,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he talks, turning a sun-stained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a noon for beggars with whining<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of sun, burning in today&#8217;s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At sunset, on the river ban\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It smelt of new rains and of tender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The night, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">dark-<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cloaked like a procures\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0of late I have begun to feel a hunger<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How can my love hold him when the other\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">bereft of soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is a house now far away where once,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">this love older than I by myriad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fond husband, ancient settler in the mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A first line single author cento composed from the lines of Kamala Das&#8217;s selected poems.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun and Soul &nbsp; All round me are words, and words and words, today the world is a little more my own. I don\u2019t know politics but I know the names, it was hot, so hot, before the eunuchs came. What is this drink but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95598","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\/1714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95612,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95598\/revisions\/95612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}