{"id":1011383,"date":"2023-04-30T11:58:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T16:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/?p=1011383&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=1011383"},"modified":"2025-03-03T11:38:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:38:44","slug":"the-jolly-zeugma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/the-jolly-zeugma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jolly Zeugma"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Jolly Zeugma<\/h2>\n<pre class=\"poem\">Calm he held his scissors and his horses\r\nUnfurling sails of paper and his brow\r\nHe stood, within his mind, upon the prow\r\nReady to control the rough sea's forces.\r\n\r\nHe heard the ocean and his mother's cry:\r\n\"Naptime!\" He laid his keel and sleepy head\r\nUpon the desk and longed for sea and bed.\r\nHe woke, at last, the Elmer's glue was dry - \r\n\r\nHis paper pirate ship was set to sail.\r\nHe ran, with boat and mother both in hand\r\nA fair breeze blew: brave sailors bid goodbye to land\r\nAs storms raced in and turned fair winds to gales.\r\n\r\nBut sinking fate's not always what it seems;\r\nOne wave can't capsize boats <em>and<\/em> boyhood dreams.\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2>Today&#8217;s Poets<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Daisy Zamora<\/strong> &#8211; a contemporary\u00a0Latin American poet whose work covers daily life, human rights, politics, revolution, feminist issues, art, history and culture. Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daisy_Zamora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P-OqsE_p5xg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>April is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Poetry_Month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Poetry Month<\/a>. This year marks its 27th year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napowrimo.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NaPoWriMo<\/a> &#8211; 30 days of writing poems &#8211; is poets&#8217; answer to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).<\/p>\n<p>This coincides with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.a-to-zchallenge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A to Z Blogging Challenge<\/a>, now celebrating its 13th anniversary. Some participants choose a theme; others wing it. Doesn&#8217;t matter! The real challenge is to build a practice of writing daily. I think I stuck with it&#8230;once.\u00a0You can see the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1bzdvBGdiKmil7Rqa6U39wMkg8O3_zlb6uIvV_64grks\/edit#gid=242088303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list of participants<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;d love it if you&#8217;d visit and comment on their blogs.<\/p>\n<p>This month, my goal is to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Write a poem a day and share it &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/poetrytalk.substack.com\/p\/a-dark-drawer-full-of-virgin-writing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uncurated<\/a> &#8211; here; and<\/li>\n<li>Highlight some poets you may be unfamiliar with.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I encourage you to click the links to read about them and their work. I plan to choose a diverse array of classical and contemporary poets &#8211; indigenous poets, Black poets, women poets, LGBTQ poets &#8211; that challenge us to see the world differently while also tapping into universal themes and emotions.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, too, that comments and conversation are always welcome here. (<em>Spammers<\/em>, on the other hand, will be tossed into the moat or mocked, so before you leave an irrelevant comment or drop a link, consider that it&#8217;s fair game!)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An homage to childlike imagination and determination, and the certainty we had as kids that we could solve any problem, given paper, paste, popsicles, and other &#8220;found objects.&#8221; With that, I give you The Jolly Zeugma &#8211; a Z word &#8211; and wish you a Happy National Poetry Month for the last time &#8211; till 2024!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1012318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":[],"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-1011383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 20:50:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012319,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011383\/revisions\/1012319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1012318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011383"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=1011383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}