{"id":733,"date":"2022-09-26T11:49:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2022-09-26T11:49:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:49:29","slug":"plums-in-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Plums in the Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Plum nectar in a chalice, her fingers dipped in honey-gold paint, wrapped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Babies in the winter time, cold in the afternoon\u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cherry-picked into affinity, the color purple graces the tops of her toes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The voice of Anita Baker trembles past her lips,<br \/>\nThankfully, she left one right-hand in the mix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In her God body, she switches to the rhythm of the electrified bass\u2013<br \/>\nPlaces her arms around the world only she can carry,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lift her up\u2026<br \/>\nLift her up!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Wings of change spring from her back as her rose tinted, Mahogany skin entices you.<br \/>\nOur hands fall to our sides, the ground catches our knees and graciousness guides us to her<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">embrace.<br \/>\nWe lift her up and<br \/>\nFollow suit.<br \/>\n<em>-It\u2019s about the inside<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plum nectar in a chalice, her fingers dipped in honey-gold paint, wrapped. Babies in the winter time, cold in the afternoon\u2013 Cherry-picked into affinity, the color purple graces the tops of her toes. The voice of Anita Baker trembles past her lips, Thankfully, she left one right-hand in the mix. In her God body, she&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"issue":[10],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Plums in the Winter | Pensive Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Plums in the Winter | Pensive Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Plum nectar in a chalice, her fingers dipped in honey-gold paint, wrapped. Babies in the winter time, cold in the afternoon\u2013 Cherry-picked into affinity, the color purple graces the tops of her toes. The voice of Anita Baker trembles past her lips, Thankfully, she left one right-hand in the mix. In her God body, she...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pensive Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pensivejournal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-26T15:49:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ashante J. Ford\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ashante J. Ford\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ashante J. Ford\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b4e8e81322d23f548a9f4639dcd95d06\"},\"headline\":\"Plums in the Winter\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-26T15:49:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-26T15:49:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/\"},\"wordCount\":128,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Poetry\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/\",\"name\":\"Plums in the Winter | Pensive Journal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-26T15:49:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-26T15:49:29+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Plums in the Winter\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/\",\"name\":\"Pensive Journal\",\"description\":\"A Global Journal of Spirituality &amp; The Arts\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Pensive Journal\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pensive-journal-logo-1.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pensive-journal-logo-1.webp\",\"width\":1270,\"height\":439,\"caption\":\"Pensive Journal\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pensivejournal\/\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pensiveglobaljournal\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b4e8e81322d23f548a9f4639dcd95d06\",\"name\":\"Ashante J. Ford\",\"description\":\"Journalist, singer, author and poet- a woman who believes that the complexity of words woven through scriptures can empower millions. Someone who laughs at the world\u2019s distraught problems and abides by the four agreements. A black &amp; queer woman who lives for love and understands that the route to happiness lies between the spirit and the soul. Here lies the words of a woman, unfiltered and extraordinary. Her work can be found on Rose Quartz journal, Mojave Heart Review, Sad Girl Review and on her personal blog; spirituallyajar.blog\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/author\/aford\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Plums in the Winter | Pensive Journal","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Plums in the Winter | Pensive Journal","og_description":"Plum nectar in a chalice, her fingers dipped in honey-gold paint, wrapped. Babies in the winter time, cold in the afternoon\u2013 Cherry-picked into affinity, the color purple graces the tops of her toes. The voice of Anita Baker trembles past her lips, Thankfully, she left one right-hand in the mix. In her God body, she...","og_url":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/","og_site_name":"Pensive Journal","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pensivejournal\/","article_published_time":"2022-09-26T15:49:29+00:00","author":"Ashante J. Ford","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ashante J. Ford","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/"},"author":{"name":"Ashante J. Ford","@id":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b4e8e81322d23f548a9f4639dcd95d06"},"headline":"Plums in the Winter","datePublished":"2022-09-26T15:49:29+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-26T15:49:29+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/"},"wordCount":128,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Poetry"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/","url":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/","name":"Plums in the Winter | Pensive Journal","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2022-09-26T15:49:29+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-26T15:49:29+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/plums-in-the-winter\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Plums in the Winter"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/","name":"Pensive Journal","description":"A Global Journal of Spirituality &amp; The Arts","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#organization","name":"Pensive Journal","url":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pensive-journal-logo-1.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pensive-journal-logo-1.webp","width":1270,"height":439,"caption":"Pensive Journal"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pensivejournal\/","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pensiveglobaljournal\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b4e8e81322d23f548a9f4639dcd95d06","name":"Ashante J. Ford","description":"Journalist, singer, author and poet- a woman who believes that the complexity of words woven through scriptures can empower millions. Someone who laughs at the world\u2019s distraught problems and abides by the four agreements. A black &amp; queer woman who lives for love and understands that the route to happiness lies between the spirit and the soul. Here lies the words of a woman, unfiltered and extraordinary. Her work can be found on Rose Quartz journal, Mojave Heart Review, Sad Girl Review and on her personal blog; spirituallyajar.blog","url":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/author\/aford\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}