{"id":100463,"date":"2021-06-27T02:46:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100463"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:46:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:46:40","slug":"hour-18-just-be-still-and-listen-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-18-just-be-still-and-listen-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 18: &#8230; just be still and listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But I cannot<\/p>\n<p>Just be still and listen<\/p>\n<p>Because my world is burning<\/p>\n<p>Away before me<\/p>\n<p>And I must put out the fire;<\/p>\n<p>Because I have something to say,<\/p>\n<p>Something you need to hear,<\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t want to be silenced.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d never ask you to<\/p>\n<p>Just be still and listen<\/p>\n<p>What if you have something urgent to do?<\/p>\n<p>What if you have something vital to tell?<\/p>\n<p>Your silence does not always serve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Get up if you need to,<\/p>\n<p>Look around if you want to.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t need to keep your eyes on mine;<\/p>\n<p>My people find that disrespectful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead and talk when I talk;<\/p>\n<p>I can still hear your words.<\/p>\n<p>My people learned long ago how to<\/p>\n<p>Listen and talk simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t hear anger or hate<\/p>\n<p>In loud voices.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes my people just have to shout,<\/p>\n<p>To voice the sacred in the words,<\/p>\n<p>The miracles on the tongue;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we just want to hear the church say,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmen!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I cannot Just be still and listen Because my world is burning Away before me And I must put out the fire; Because I have something to say, Something you need to hear, And I don&#8217;t want to be silenced. &nbsp; I\u2019d never ask&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4101],"class_list":["post-100463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2021poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100476,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100463\/revisions\/100476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}