{"id":100574,"date":"2021-06-27T03:02:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100574"},"modified":"2021-06-27T22:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T02:00:02","slug":"poem-19-a-tribute-to-oodgeroo-noonuccal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-19-a-tribute-to-oodgeroo-noonuccal\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 19:\u00a0 A Tribute to Oodgeroo Noonuccal  \u00a0&#8220;The Big Share&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Time to smile<\/p>\n<p>Let go of your angry heart<\/p>\n<p>There is a mighty throng of those white people<\/p>\n<p>Who want good, and know good<\/p>\n<p>So we have to empower them<\/p>\n<p>As we do ourselves<\/p>\n<p>Our tears will drown us, if we<\/p>\n<p>Cry in a bowl of despair<\/p>\n<p>It has been unfair<\/p>\n<p>All sacks we carry on our backs<\/p>\n<p>Full of deadly stones<\/p>\n<p>And putrid ignorance. And when we hear<\/p>\n<p>Sorry<\/p>\n<p>It is better for them, than it is<\/p>\n<p>Us<\/p>\n<p>Because it<\/p>\n<p>Happened<\/p>\n<p>Something that tore our breasts<\/p>\n<p>and decimated<\/p>\n<p>Hope<\/p>\n<p>We almost forgot our names<\/p>\n<p>But to them we are Indians<\/p>\n<p>To us, we are people of the land, the water<\/p>\n<p>and the spirits of soul and mind<\/p>\n<p>We have conquered<\/p>\n<p>So victory is here<\/p>\n<p>With us<\/p>\n<p>Do not pout<\/p>\n<p>Or scorn<\/p>\n<p>Love and talk and forgive<\/p>\n<p>And BECOME.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Time to smile Let go of your angry heart There is a mighty throng of those white people Who want good, and know good So we have to empower them As we do ourselves Our tears will drown us, if we Cry in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100574","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\/1447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103490,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100574\/revisions\/103490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}