{"id":188169,"date":"2021-07-05T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=188169"},"modified":"2021-07-04T09:28:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T08:28:35","slug":"said-the-enchantress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/07\/said-the-enchantress\/","title":{"rendered":"Said the Enchantress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t open the cupboard, she said to me.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s something I don\u2019t want you to see.<br \/>\nSpecial potions and pills for him.<br \/>\nTo unleash the nectar from the forbidden tree<br \/>\nEspecially during this lockdown, I spent days in my satin dressing gown.<br \/>\nTrying to make him believe that he is a stallion, fierce and strong.<br \/>\nThe wait is really too long.<br \/>\nHe needs a lift, that\u2019s all!<br \/>\nI\u2019m no apothecary, but I have the magic blue formula in a pill.<br \/>\nI crush it to fine powder, his glass to fill.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s like a wedding gift, only with a special thrill.<br \/>\nHe needs a lift, that\u2019s all!<br \/>\nIt doesn\u2019t matter if I have an ovarian cyst.<br \/>\nSo, he sips the potion as I insist.<br \/>\nThis is no snare, no trap, its only passion I persist.<br \/>\nIts desire, this is my art, to kindle, to bewitch<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no poison, only his fantasy to enrich,<br \/>\nMy honey, my dear having no lift is sometimes a gift<br \/>\nLike that cow who produces no milk<br \/>\nshe is not spun in mulberry silk<br \/>\nyet the farmer doesn\u2019t cry over no butter milk<br \/>\nhe turns the udder cheek.<br \/>\nBy the way he lacks toes!<br \/>\n_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-186568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dr Usha Roopnarain \u2013 Former parliamentarian in the National Assembly of South Africa, social activist and passionate about human rights and gender equality.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t open the cupboard, she said to me.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s something I don\u2019t want you to see.<br \/>\nSpecial potions and pills for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-188169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}