{"id":100807,"date":"2021-06-27T04:02:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100807"},"modified":"2021-06-27T21:59:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T01:59:27","slug":"poem-20-a-tribute-to-pauline-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-20-a-tribute-to-pauline-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 20: A Tribute to Pauline Johnson  &#8220;Severed Hide&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You have my heart<\/p>\n<p>so we\u2019ll never part<\/p>\n<p>Many things can destroy us<\/p>\n<p>Turning us to dust<\/p>\n<p>but we are never passed away<\/p>\n<p>As the sun shines so gay<\/p>\n<p>The music of our dance<\/p>\n<p>is the infinite sound of our chance<\/p>\n<p>What befalls the white man\u2019s hand<\/p>\n<p>Footsteps in our sacred sand<\/p>\n<p>Our home is empty, except our love<\/p>\n<p>tenderly held by our sister\u2019s glove<\/p>\n<p>The plains are bare<\/p>\n<p>our knives in much less care<\/p>\n<p>We speak not to our beasts of life<\/p>\n<p>our friends that freed us from starving strife<\/p>\n<p>Do what you must<\/p>\n<p>but we have to conquer trust<\/p>\n<p>and not let hatred steal<\/p>\n<p>The faithful passion that we feel<\/p>\n<p>Curse the fate of the human soul<\/p>\n<p>no matter who or when the drums do roll<\/p>\n<p>We are blessed with courage and faith<\/p>\n<p>tying us to the past warrior\u2019s wraith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; You have my heart so we\u2019ll never part Many things can destroy us Turning us to dust but we are never passed away As the sun shines so gay The music of our dance is the infinite sound of our chance What befalls the&#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-100807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100807","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=100807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103489,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100807\/revisions\/103489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}