{"id":35826,"date":"2017-08-05T16:44:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35826"},"modified":"2017-08-05T17:01:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:01:18","slug":"our-potential-to-flourish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/our-potential-to-flourish\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Potential to Flourish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Let us gather in a flourishing way<\/div>\n<div>with sunluz grains abriendo los cantos<\/div>\n<div>que cargamos cada d\u00eda<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; Juan Felipe Herrera, former Poet Laureate of the United States<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Some moments arrive so delicately, so tenderly, they let<\/div>\n<div>each person again believe\u00a0and trust in the magic of &#8220;us&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>We plan, conspire, share, dream, hope, and\u00a0gather<\/div>\n<div>for a moment of breath and steadiness. This world\u00a0in<\/div>\n<div>sudden shifting still turns, but its axis no longer moves in a<\/div>\n<div>circle eastward. Instead, from north to south people are still flourishing<\/div>\n<div>despite uncertainties, brushes with death, and pain in a way<\/div>\n<div>that proclaims joy &#8212; a preservation of what we&#8217;ve created combined with<\/div>\n<div>conviction of what our loved ones deserve:\u00a0sunluz.<\/div>\n<div>We seek sunlight upon the harvest of our poemas, familias, grains,<\/div>\n<div>and dreams as we turn upward, outward, disfrutando, abriendo\u00a0&#8212;<\/div>\n<div>every so elegantly opening &#8212; like the flowers we are among los<\/div>\n<div>pajaros\u00a0who blithely flutter, create, and sing their cantos.<\/div>\n<div>What a stillness, return to peace, and softness we will find. \u00a0Que<\/div>\n<div>honor y dignidad\u00a0we will again claim. In each new generation cargamos<\/div>\n<div>these same blisses and blessings forward with each sunrise following cada<\/div>\n<div>noche. It is now we begin flourishing with our true potential en un nuevo dia.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/52283\/let-us-gather-in-a-flourishing-way\">&#8220;Let Us Gather In A Flourishing Way&#8221; Read by Juan Felipe Herrera<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us gather in a flourishing way with sunluz grains abriendo los cantos que cargamos cada d\u00eda \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; Juan Felipe Herrera, former Poet Laureate of the United States Some moments&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35826","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\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35826"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36193,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35826\/revisions\/36193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}