{"id":138177,"date":"2023-09-02T22:30:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138177"},"modified":"2023-09-02T22:30:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:30:48","slug":"being-patiently-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/being-patiently-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Being, patiently #14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">I saw him, old and bent<br \/>\nGnarled<br \/>\nWaiting patiently<br \/>\nOr so I thought<br \/>\nOn the park bench.<br \/>\nHe explained<br \/>\nWhen I asked<br \/>\nWhat he was waiting fot<br \/>\nThat he wasn&#8217;t waiting at all<br \/>\nHe was just<br \/>\nBeing, patiently<br \/>\nNot being patient at all<br \/>\nBecause being parient<br \/>\nWas doing<br \/>\nAnd he was just being<br \/>\nPariently, without hurry<br \/>\nOr the dusruption of thought.<br \/>\nI apologised<br \/>\nFor my intrusion<br \/>\nHe laughhed<br \/>\nAnd said<br \/>\nThat I didn&#8217;t intrude<br \/>\nNothing could<br \/>\nBecause<br \/>\nHe was me<br \/>\nAnd I he<br \/>\nJust like birrdsong<br \/>\nAnd barking dogs<br \/>\nAnd the crying child<br \/>\nAnd the roar<br \/>\nOf the passing bus.<br \/>\nI smiled at his madness<br \/>\nAnd went on my way<br \/>\nAnd I learned<br \/>\nTo see the oneness<br \/>\nIn a sunrise<br \/>\nAnd now I know<br \/>\nWhy he smiled,<br \/>\nThat it was me<br \/>\nWho was mad<br \/>\nNot to see<br \/>\nThe old man was right<br \/>\nAll creation is one<br \/>\nNature<br \/>\nShe is me<br \/>\nAnd I am she.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw him, old and bent Gnarled Waiting patiently Or so I thought On the park bench. He explained When I asked What he was waiting fot That he wasn&#8217;t waiting at all He was just Being, patiently Not being patient at all Because being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138177","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\/4830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138188,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138177\/revisions\/138188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}