{"id":90584,"date":"2021-06-26T12:42:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90584"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:47:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:47:17","slug":"we-shall-see-each-other-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/we-shall-see-each-other-again\/","title":{"rendered":"We shall see each other again* (a poem in memory of Patti)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We shall see each other again, she said,<br \/>\nbut don\u2019t come now.<br \/>\nThe truth is, she said,<br \/>\nI don\u2019t want you to remember me this way:<br \/>\nfrail and sad, slipping away.<br \/>\nDying.<br \/>\nInstead, how about this?<br \/>\nHow about you go to the ocean and<br \/>\nwalk through the waves crying<br \/>\nwhile beautiful black shells wash up at your feet and<br \/>\nsea gulls scream into the winds<br \/>\nabove you.<br \/>\nYou can take carnations and fling them into the surf<br \/>\nand you can sing a song of your making<br \/>\nthat will float<br \/>\nall the way from California to Indiana<br \/>\nto my waiting ears and<br \/>\nI will send you snowflakes and baby robins and oak leaves<br \/>\nand everything wonderful<br \/>\nthat I can offer from my world<br \/>\nand you can send me<br \/>\ncoyote songs and sun rises and mountains<br \/>\nand everything wonderful<br \/>\nfrom your world and<br \/>\nall these infinite joys will mix together<br \/>\ninto a jeweled labyrinth<br \/>\nof our friendship and<br \/>\nthen of course<br \/>\none day<br \/>\nwe shall see each other again<br \/>\nbut not now, not now.<br \/>\nJust not now.<\/p>\n<p>*title is from the last line of the book, Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We shall see each other again, she said, but don\u2019t come now. The truth is, she said, I don\u2019t want you to remember me this way: frail and sad, slipping away. Dying. Instead, how about this? How about you go to the ocean and walk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90584","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\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90759,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90584\/revisions\/90759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}