{"id":2022,"date":"2017-07-02T20:16:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T20:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2017-07-02T20:16:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T20:16:22","slug":"across-the-oceans-iv-issue-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/index.php\/across-the-oceans-iv-issue-7\/","title":{"rendered":"ACROSS THE OCEANS IV (ISSUE 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 1.7.8 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n\n <!-- WP QUADS - Quick AdSense Reloaded v.1.7.8 Content AdSense async --> \n\n<script async data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\">\nvar quads_screen_width = document.body.clientWidth;\nif ( quads_screen_width >= 1140 ) {\r\n\/* desktop monitors *\/\r\ndocument.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5983616716487778\" data-ad-slot=\"\" ><\/ins>');\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n}if ( quads_screen_width >= 1024  && quads_screen_width < 1140 ) {\r\n\/* tablet landscape *\/\r\ndocument.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5983616716487778\" data-ad-slot=\"\" ><\/ins>');\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n}if ( quads_screen_width >= 768  && quads_screen_width < 1024 ) {\r\n\/* tablet portrait *\/\r\ndocument.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5983616716487778\" data-ad-slot=\"\" ><\/ins>');\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n}if ( quads_screen_width < 768 ) {\r\n\/* phone *\/\r\ndocument.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5983616716487778\" data-ad-slot=\"\" ><\/ins>');\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n}<\/script>\n\n <!-- end WP QUADS --> \n\n\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>ACROSS THE OCEANS (ISSUE 7)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEASON OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by\u00a0Arathy Asok<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women are all beautiful this season<\/p>\n<p>They have scrubbed their faces with white marble<\/p>\n<p>And kissed deep on blood red wine<\/p>\n<p>Their hair has been taken by the wind floating like water on sky<\/p>\n<p>Their bones, a note of music, flesh lamp in winter.<\/p>\n<p>They are all beautiful<\/p>\n<p>Whom I know not nor who cares to know me<\/p>\n<p>I stand outside the ring, their laughter washing over me<\/p>\n<p>I do not know. I cannot know.<\/p>\n<p>I have lost my innocence when the rose bloomed<\/p>\n<p>I look at them the smile behind hollow eyes<\/p>\n<p>The smell of washed soap and husbands who long after dead fathers<\/p>\n<p>I see them all and know them not<\/p>\n<p>What do they think and how do they think?<\/p>\n<p>Where is life I missed out when they lived this void thinking that they live this truth?<\/p>\n<p>Writing these lines I think of you beautiful women<\/p>\n<p>Who have forgotten to wipe the marble<\/p>\n<p>And the wine before you meets this crowd out here<\/p>\n<p>This crowd who loves you for all the mirth<\/p>\n<p>You ring out and know not that your cries are shut<\/p>\n<p>Behind the vaults that will open only at eternity\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 1.7.8 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad2\" id=\"quads-ad2\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<script>\r\n  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({\r\n    google_ad_client: \"ca-pub-5983616716487778\",\r\n    enable_page_level_ads: true\r\n  });\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-04-08-10.49.47.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"2027\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/index.php\/spoken-waves-issue-7\/2017-04-08-10-49-47\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-04-08-10.49.47.jpg?fit=364%2C401&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"364,401\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2017-04-08 10.49.47\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-04-08-10.49.47.jpg?fit=272%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-04-08-10.49.47.jpg?fit=364%2C401&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2027 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-04-08-10.49.47-272x300.jpg?resize=272%2C300\" alt=\"2017-04-08 10.49.47\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-04-08-10.49.47.jpg?resize=272%2C300&amp;ssl=1 272w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-04-08-10.49.47.jpg?w=364&amp;ssl=1 364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Arathy Asok<\/strong>, born in Kerala, India, completed M.Phil. from the University of Calicut. She currently works as Assistant Professor at Government Victoria College Palakkad and has published her poems in journals and anthologies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 1.7.8 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad3\" id=\"quads-ad3\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<script>\r\n  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({\r\n    google_ad_client: \"ca-pub-5983616716487778\",\r\n    enable_page_level_ads: true\r\n  });\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACROSS THE OCEANS (ISSUE 7) SEASON OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN by\u00a0Arathy Asok Women are all beautiful this season They have scrubbed their faces with white marble&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[67,429,379,114],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2079,"url":"https:\/\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/index.php\/pin-quarterly-journal-issue-7-editors-note\/","url_meta":{"origin":2022,"position":0},"title":"PIN QUARTERLY JOURNAL (ISSUE 7): EDITOR'S NOTE","date":"July 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"PIN QUARTERLY JOURNAL (ISSUE 7) EDITOR\u2019S NOTE \u00a0 Creativity, like rainfall, could be cyclical; and at certain times, torrential. 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