{"id":17573,"date":"2025-08-24T18:32:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=17573"},"modified":"2025-08-24T18:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:32:27","slug":"a-poem-by-prageeta-sharma-irresistible-contentment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=17573","title":{"rendered":"A Poem by Prageeta Sharma: \u2018Irresistible Contentment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">I am talking my way back to the poem\u2019s turn<br \/>and where it might lie outside my skirted body,<br \/>a corded place where bluish sky paints my attention,<br \/>and empties itself into a golden silence\u2014<br \/>without talk or sound. Phrases now feel<br \/>perversely sentient and yet devilishly<br \/>wrong. Every night I talk with the hope<br \/>that speech itself will burn me<br \/>its one true alphabet.<br \/>Nevertheless, morning\u2019s magic<br \/>always looks opaque because<br \/>a stronger feeling replaced<br \/>the lesser one, and the rightness<br \/>must reach the poem\u2019s hearted center<br \/>so that I am led to what might be<br \/>a plateau of nested changes, something<br \/>irresistible, those letters of gold, maybe anew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\"><em>This poem is from Prageeta Sharma\u2019s new book, <\/em>Onement Won<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am talking my way back to the poem\u2019s turnand where it might lie outside my skirted body,a corded place where bluish sky paints my attention,and empties itself into a golden silence\u2014without talk or sound. Phrases now feelperversely sentient and yet devilishlywrong. Every night I talk with the hopethat speech itself will burn meits one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[10626,10625,5430,10623,10624],"class_list":{"0":"post-17573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-contentment","9":"tag-irresistible","10":"tag-poem","11":"tag-prageeta","12":"tag-sharma"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}