{"id":101377,"date":"2021-06-27T05:07:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101377"},"modified":"2021-06-27T05:07:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:07:35","slug":"ode-to-the-brave-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/ode-to-the-brave-souls\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to the Brave Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To those who spend their days in warfare<br \/>\nTo those who spend their night in shadows<br \/>\nWhere sounds of bullets shield mortals life<br \/>\nWhere death and pain fire with anguish and fear<br \/>\nRinging like doorbells in the valley of death.<br \/>\nTo those whose services were with and without<br \/>\nTo those whose decisions were selflessly made<br \/>\nWhere shells of valor stand in expression<br \/>\nWhere roads of distress close in appreciation<br \/>\nSinging like melodies of the morning birds.<br \/>\nTo those whose lives are to God<br \/>\nTo those whose compassion is to Men<br \/>\nWhere the Gospel of truth is placed in them as vessels<br \/>\nWhere power was transferred as healing waters<br \/>\nSwaying like trees in the ocean breeze<br \/>\nThank you, dear Soldiers<br \/>\nThank you great &#8216;salters&#8217;<br \/>\nThank you fear breakers<br \/>\nThank you brave minded<br \/>\nTo you<br \/>\nI say Thank you.<br \/>\nFor restoring Law to order<br \/>\nFor keeping our borders and waterways safe<br \/>\nFor capturing terrorist fanatics crazed<br \/>\nFor disarming evil wishes on the innocent race.<br \/>\nFor the ones, we never knew by name<br \/>\nYet you signed your life and aim<br \/>\nNo words are sufficient to say,<br \/>\nThank you.<br \/>\nGod bless you.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nIn memory of our fallen soldiers and those who push for His Almighty and this country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;style&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/4812274666961438459\/4675753261888937879#\" data-original-attrs=\"{&quot;data-original-href&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-UpBqevHZagE\/WMgGzMVyamI\/AAAAAAAABE8\/WUBNNxGEJgE\/s1600\/blog.jpg&quot;,&quot;style&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-UpBqevHZagE\/WMgGzMVyamI\/AAAAAAAABE8\/WUBNNxGEJgE\/s640\/blog.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To those who spend their days in warfare To those who spend their night in shadows Where sounds of bullets shield mortals life Where death and pain fire with anguish and fear Ringing like doorbells in the valley of death. To those whose services were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101377","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\/1361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101387,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101377\/revisions\/101387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}