{"id":289,"date":"2023-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"a-poet-isnt-afraid-of-her-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/04\/a-poet-isnt-afraid-of-her-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"A poet isn&#8217;t afraid of her voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>My dreams rise up, inky and wet,<br \/>\nblue, black and red &#8211; a testament<br \/>\nto all the bruises that birthed them.<br \/>\nThey surround me, like smog at dusk,<br \/>\nand call me an imposter.<br \/>\nI tell them I&#8217;ll write about it,<br \/>\nbut the bile in my throat<br \/>\nchokes me. <br \/>\nTwo decades of writing poetry,<br \/>\nfrom pencil tips to phone screens,<br \/>\nand now war has rendered me silent.<\/p>\n<p>Concrete slabs weigh down on my chest<br \/>\neach breath is a countdown.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m afraid to hit zero. <br \/>\nLives are grey dust, grey wind, grey skies<br \/>\nand whitewashed hope, <br \/>\ncovered in scarlet d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.<br \/>\nMy birthday wish for world peace<br \/>\nwould never come true <br \/>\nbecause peace costs a pretty penny<br \/>\nand poverty is free. <br \/>\nIn my next life, then,<br \/>\nmay I be born into another world,<br \/>\nmore humane than my own,<br \/>\nmore humane than my own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dreams rise up, inky and wet,  blue, black and red &#8211; a testament  to all the bruises that birthed them.  They surround me, like smog at dusk,  and call me an imposter.  I tell them I&#8217;ll write about it,  but the bile in my throat  chokes me.   Two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}