{"id":4592,"date":"2015-09-12T14:55:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=4592"},"modified":"2015-10-17T19:14:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T19:14:58","slug":"smoking-time-a-poem-by-ajise-vincent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/smoking-time-a-poem-by-ajise-vincent\/","title":{"rendered":"SMOKING TIME. A Poem by Ajise Vincent"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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\nI crave for days when dreams
\nwere breast-fed with lactates of didactism.
\n 
\nDays when truth was our deity
\nWorshiped in the shrine of our conscience
\n 
\nThen, our words were golden
\nThey tangoed not with subtleties
\n 
\nOur biddings were enveloped in love
\nThey wore not the swinish regalia of abhorrence
\n 
\nLo! in a flash
\nWe ate eve’s apple. Knowledge?
\n 
\nMisconstrued. Annihilated.
\nCrucified.
\n 
\nWe are now a generation
\nOf forbidden heresies.
\n 
\nA bisected
\nNavel tossed into abyss.
\n 
\nFor our conscience
\nhas been battered for mammons
\n 
\n& all our prospects now lie
\non the tree of knowledge, good and evil.<\/strong>
\n 
\n 
\nBIOGRAPHY
\n <\/p>\n

\"Ajise<\/a>
\n 
\nAjise Vincent is a Nigerian Poet. His poem \u201cSong of a Progeny\u201d was a shortlisted poem at the Korea- Nigeria Poetry feast, 2015. His works have been published in London grip magazine, Kalahari Review, Sakonfa literary magazine, AfricanWriter, Indian periodical, Social Justice Poetry, I Am Not a Silent Poet, Afrikana ng, Poetry Pacific, The Poet Community, Whispers, Commonline Journal, Novel Afrique, Black Boy Review, Tuck Magazine and various literary outlets. He is currently finishing up a major in Economics at the University<\/strong>
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      I crave for days when dreams were breast-fed with lactates of didactism.   Days when truth was our deity Worshiped in the shrine of our conscience   Then, our words were golden They tangoed not with subtleties   Our biddings were enveloped in love They wore not the swinish regalia of abhorrence … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[639,43],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4592"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4732,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions\/4732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}