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The Day of the Dead<\/strong><\/p>\n I burn Mexico. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maureen Weldon<\/strong> performs her poems with live music. Her poems have appeared in many small press magazines, \u00a0including : Poetry Scotland; Drey; Crannog; Sons of Camus International Journal 2011<\/em>,( winning her an award.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Day of the Dead I burn Mexico. I have lit the old candle which I got six years ago in Cuernavaca. So much love in the eye of a flame. It is as though – those I hold most dear and can never hold again are here. It is as though, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3663,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions\/3663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI have lit the old candle
\nwhich I got six years ago
\nin Cuernavaca.
\nSo much love
\nin the eye of a flame.
\nIt is as though –
\nthose I hold most dear
\nand can never hold again
\nare here.
\nIt is as though, the petals
\nof a thousand yellow flowers,
\nare scattered
\nbetween earth and heaven.<\/p>\n