{"id":16958,"date":"2024-10-22T09:52:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T08:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=16958"},"modified":"2024-10-22T09:52:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T08:52:14","slug":"poem-whom-youre-never-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2024\/10\/22\/poem-whom-youre-never-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Whom You\u2019re Never Told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Whom You\u2019re Never Told<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She pleads with her mantras for years\u2014endless<br \/>\nIn a hill so tranquil, where she is\u2014she always is<br \/>\nThere she dwells untold, whom you never know\u2014whom you\u2019re never told<br \/>\nBearing the name; Ujung Geni.<br \/>\nThe Javanese herbalist who cheats<br \/>\nTime and death.<\/p>\n<p>She broods in her thoughts no other than<br \/>\nTo live, to live, to live, and to live<br \/>\nTo live nowhere other than in her hill so tranquil<br \/>\nShe lives more than the trees and times bore, more than love;<br \/>\nUjung Geni, alone with her thoughts,<br \/>\nIn her hill so tranquil.<\/p>\n<p>Three musky cumin family of parsley, a branch of senthe,<br \/>\nRoasted parkia seed, petals of wijaya kusuma, buds of clove,<br \/>\nA finger long aromatic ginger and turmeric,<br \/>\nAltingia excelsa just a bark, dripped with essence<br \/>\nOf fermented cassava. Mesoyi, slice a little.<br \/>\nethereal oil\u2014Cinnamomum sintoc blume.<\/p>\n<p>Powder them all,<br \/>\nBathe with them,<br \/>\nBreathing their fumes<br \/>\nIn a hill so tranquil, where she is\u2014where she always is<br \/>\nLonger with spells written, mantras spoken, jamu can fulfill.<br \/>\nWith the earth buttering all spices, bearing her will,<br \/>\nTo live forever more with jamu no pottery can infill.<\/p>\n<p>For ages long she lives indeed till death favors<br \/>\nher no more.<\/p>\n<p>She knows to live but not to live for.<br \/>\nIn a hill so tranquil, even the hill dismal, where she lives<br \/>\nShe belongs but what is it for? These scars in eternal bearers<br \/>\nAll tiresome mantras in gazillion styles and songs.<\/p>\n<p>She begs to live no more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whom You\u2019re Never Told She pleads with her mantras for years\u2014endless In a hill so tranquil, where she is\u2014she always is There she dwells untold, whom you never know\u2014whom you\u2019re never told Bearing the name; Ujung Geni. The Javanese herbalist who cheats Time and death. She broods in her thoughts no other than To live, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1449,6510,7320,7341,7558,7561,9448,10093,10094,10269],"class_list":["post-16958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-never","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-putriyana-asmarani","tag-putriyana-asmarani-poet","tag-told","tag-whom","tag-whom-youre-never-told","tag-youre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}