{"id":1075,"date":"2016-03-23T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/povojournal\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2016-03-23T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T15:28:10","slug":"a-shepherds-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/a-shepherds-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A shepherd\u2019s dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Between the golden blades of wheat,<br>Distanced from where acacias retain their midday shadow,<br>The sun finds entangled in orgasms,<br>Melanin limbs of lovers<br>In shimmering sweat glazed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She arches her back<br>Where his hand grips the small of it<br>Caressing with his fingers that place to seat his seed<br>While deep inside her planting this kernel cocooned till ripe<br>A quake announcing its embedding<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not one sweet birdsong creams,<br>the melody of her soft scream\u2019s dream<br>Nor the field-wind\u2019s breeze,<br>the rustle of his shifting rhythms<br>And the vast skies bear sole-witness to their forbidden passion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between the golden blades of wheat<br>Out wide in the open yet beautifully secreted<br>A tear, a moan, a heart breaks from too sweet love<br>A girl succumbs to his manhood\u2019s arrest<br>And a woman becomes, to make a man<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He tears her skin, the gates to her womb<br>And all at one time, the chords of her virgin heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He tears her skin, the gates, her heart, tenderizes her ass<br>He makes her cry, the skies, they see<br>The sun, it weeps<br>She loves too sweet<br>His locks, she grips<br>Holds on for life<br>The earth, it moves<br>He belts his pace<br>She screams and screams<br>As they arrive<br>\u2026<br>No longer girl,<br>A child conceived<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They pant and pant until they sigh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between the golden blades of wheat<br>Out wide in the open where the herd lazes from its graze<br>The shepherd watches on his back the sun descend<br>The saccharine breath of lovers worn, through his nostrils ascend<br>His cane rises in honour<br>To praise the man<br>That made a girl, a woman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between the golden blades of wheat,Distanced from where acacias retain their midday shadow,The sun finds entangled in orgasms,Melanin limbs of loversIn shimmering sweat glazed She arches her backWhere his hand grips the small of itCaressing with his fingers that place to seat his seedWhile deep inside her planting this kernel cocooned till ripeA quake announcing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-poetry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - 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