{"id":97488,"date":"2021-06-26T21:12:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97488"},"modified":"2021-06-27T22:05:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T02:05:35","slug":"poem-13-a-tribute-to-walt-whitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-13-a-tribute-to-walt-whitman\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 13:\u00a0 A Tribute to Walt Whitman  \u00a0&#8220;Friends?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children, of varying sizes, equal, to a degree<\/p>\n<p>Sons and daughters<\/p>\n<p>Healthy, except one<\/p>\n<p>unsure of vegetables<\/p>\n<p>afraid of Dad, voice too loud<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Friends come and go<\/p>\n<p>Enjoying free food and horse rides<\/p>\n<p>The house is large<\/p>\n<p>they like people knowing<\/p>\n<p>they are rich<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Generally agreeing, that the Law<\/p>\n<p>Is worth abiding to<\/p>\n<p>Because trouble<\/p>\n<p>simply means trouble<\/p>\n<p>the word is prominence<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The earth is proud of them<\/p>\n<p>They like trees and animals<\/p>\n<p>Glowing concepts of freedom and love<\/p>\n<p>(taking into account their neighbour)<\/p>\n<p>eyes always out for dogs chasing cars<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a union<\/p>\n<p>Of belief and obligation<\/p>\n<p>Good vs bad never difficult<\/p>\n<p>expanding self-defense<\/p>\n<p>to the maintenance of dignity<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dad isn\u2019t home much, works hard<\/p>\n<p>Mother towers over them all<\/p>\n<p>Using Father\u2019s name<\/p>\n<p>dedicated to everything<\/p>\n<p>and always, let her kids win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children, of varying sizes, equal, to a degree Sons and daughters Healthy, except one unsure of vegetables afraid of Dad, voice too loud &nbsp; Friends come and go Enjoying free food and horse rides The house is large they like people knowing they are rich&#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-97488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97488","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=97488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103496,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97488\/revisions\/103496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}