{"id":1068,"date":"2019-08-12T02:45:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T02:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2019-08-12T03:17:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T03:17:26","slug":"choosechose-by-mary-seymour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/choosechose-by-mary-seymour\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose|Chose by Mary Seymour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1071\" style=\"width: 827px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1071\" class=\" wp-image-1071\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/IChoose__1600x900-SeriesHero.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"817\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/IChoose__1600x900-SeriesHero.jpg 1286w, https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/IChoose__1600x900-SeriesHero-768x458.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 817px) 100vw, 817px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me<br \/>Mary Seymour<br \/>Choose|Chose<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Choose|Chose<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>i chose to believe whatever i chose to believe<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I choose not to care what you think about this poem interesting? For feelings are me. This totally unique member of humankind<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>chosen to be on this planet for one second at this time don\u2019t want to rhyme i choose to choose to use this time as wisely as wise<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>i chose not to blame my parents, husband, children or grandchild for what I will or will not achieve in life.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>i choose to see the beauty in everything that is beautiful determined by my standard and not others<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>not others<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>i choose to get excited and smile when music takes over for one moment I choose to be proud of Black Skin and Kinky Hair<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I choose to embrace the history of my ancestors with love and respect<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I choose to liberate what I chose from the layers of conditioning that has been imposed on choosing.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>i choose to be the a educated Black woman understanding the complexity of my blackness.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>when I choose I chose not to impress just write what\u2019s right for me.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>i choose to love the energy of honest love<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>i choose to write and write until I write the chosen truths in my soul<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>maybe the first step I choose to believe.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1073\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1073\" class=\"wp-image-1073 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/215186_1014749332347_5044_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/215186_1014749332347_5044_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/215186_1014749332347_5044_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/215186_1014749332347_5044_n-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/215186_1014749332347_5044_n-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All rights reserved (c) Mary Seymour [Iforcolor.org] NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Choose|Chose &nbsp; &nbsp; i chose to believe whatever i chose to believe I choose not to care what you think about this poem interesting? For feelings are me. This totally unique member of humankind chosen to be on this planet for one second at this time don\u2019t want to rhyme i choose to choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}