{"id":128,"date":"1985-09-09T22:52:07","date_gmt":"1985-09-10T05:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:15:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:15:17","slug":"pensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/09\/09\/pensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why seemest thou so pensive<br \/>\nWhen violently apprehensive,<br \/>\nWith visionless postulations<br \/>\nOf thy earthbound situation,<br \/>\nThou do nought to help thy Spirit grow;<br \/>\nThou who ought let love within thee flow.<\/p>\n<p>Now who fought the feelings that thee know<br \/>\nWould lead thee away from this earthly abode.<br \/>\nTo live One Way in deference<br \/>\nShould be thy only preference;<br \/>\nO distraught futilitarian!<br \/>\nDiscover what&#8217;s really there again,<\/p>\n<p>Beyond beguiling fecklessness.<br \/>\nWe wander through the wantonness<br \/>\nBrought down by consternations<br \/>\nOf will founded not in patience.<br \/>\nThy thoughts and desires of earthly planes:<br \/>\nWhy taught thee thus this mirthless game<\/p>\n<p>(High aboard thy throne of worthless gain)<br \/>\nTo those needing no more inflicted pain?<br \/>\nLessons in True Perfection,<br \/>\nLife and Truth&#8217;s redemption,<br \/>\nShould young Masters be shown<br \/>\nAnd to all the world be known.<\/p>\n<p>For in dire they need the knowledge<br \/>\nFor freedom from earth&#8217;s bondage:<br \/>\nFreedom &#8211; as freedom reigns<br \/>\nKingdoms of no needless games<br \/>\n(Planes where thou art wont to be)<br \/>\nKingdoms beyond materiality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why seemest thou so pensive<br \/> When violently apprehensive,<br \/> With visionless postulations<br \/> Of thy earthbound situation,<br \/> Thou do nought to help thy Spirit grow;<br \/> Thou who ought let love within thee flow.<\/p>\n<p>Now who fought the feelings that thee know<br \/> Would lead thee away from this earthly abode.<br \/> To live One Way in deference<br [...]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}