{"id":1040,"date":"1988-11-22T09:25:19","date_gmt":"1988-11-22T17:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2012-09-28T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T16:26:07","slug":"flock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1988\/11\/22\/flock\/","title":{"rendered":"Flock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had stood on the<br \/>\nShore in silent<br \/>\nRepose, many times.<br \/>\nContemplating waves<br \/>\nAnd Lives and energy,<br \/>\nAnd never had two<br \/>\nMoments on the<br \/>\nShore been the same.<br \/>\nNever had the waves<br \/>\nBeen the same;<br \/>\nNever had the<br \/>\nLives been the same.<\/p>\n<p>I had stood on<br \/>\nthe shore many times,<br \/>\nhad watched the birds.<br \/>\nI had seen the<br \/>\nFlock, one flock<br \/>\nMoving, living, working<br \/>\nAs a whole for the<br \/>\nBenefit of the whole.<\/p>\n<p>There were multitudes of those birds,<br \/>\nEvery one an individual,<br \/>\nYet every one working<br \/>\nFor the flock.<br \/>\nThere were no unhappy birds in<br \/>\nThat flock, for they<br \/>\nWorked for the flock to benefit<br \/>\nThemselves.<\/p>\n<p>I had stood on many shores and<br \/>\nPondered on man;<br \/>\nMen without a flock to work for.<br \/>\nUnhappy men, who<br \/>\nNever changed.<br \/>\nOn and on they went,<br \/>\nUntil the wave broke,<br \/>\nThen the next wave breaks.<\/p>\n<p>I have stood on the shore,<br \/>\nAnd wished so many things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had stood on the<br \/> Shore in silent<br \/> Repose, many times.<br \/> Contemplating waves<br \/> And Lives and energy,<br \/> And never had two<br \/> Moments on the<br \/> Shore been the same.<br \/> Never had the waves<br \/> Been the same;<br \/> Never had the<br \/> Lives been the same.<\/p>\n<p>I had stood on<br \/> the shore [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}