{"id":1426,"date":"2000-06-16T19:09:38","date_gmt":"2000-06-17T02:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2013-01-19T19:10:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T03:10:54","slug":"a-spiritual-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2000\/06\/16\/a-spiritual-reward\/","title":{"rendered":"A spiritual reward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cherish the soft smoothness<br \/>\nthat I now see.<br \/>\nA tone of health &#8212;<br \/>\na tone to worship.<\/p>\n<p>There was a day when once I knew<br \/>\nthe supple firmness that time must rip away.<\/p>\n<p>I mourn a youth I could have had<br \/>\nbut face a future without regret,<br \/>\nfor the here and now is<br \/>\nthe culmination of<br \/>\na journey of enlightenment.<\/p>\n<p>Though I love to ponder,<br \/>\nI love to roam,<br \/>\nI love to think and onward go.<br \/>\nI feel adept and well-equiped<br \/>\nThough life is not an easy gift<br \/>\nI plow away hoping to reap<br \/>\na spiritual reward.<\/p>\n<p>A freedom to express and grow,<br \/>\nTo continue on to what I&#8217;ll know<br \/>\nwill be the satiation of desires,<br \/>\nby removing needs and desires.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, I am inspired.<\/p>\n<p>Though what time must rip away,<br \/>\ntenuously I&#8217;ll cling to for as long as I may,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll look back and cherish the supple firmness,<br \/>\nthe smooth, soft youth<br \/>\nI&#8217;d once portrayed.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll look forward and know<br \/>\nthat it will again come my way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cherish the soft smoothness<br \/> that I now see.<br \/> A tone of health &#8212;<br \/> a tone to worship.<\/p>\n<p>There was a day when once I knew<br \/> the supple firmness that time must rip away.<\/p>\n<p>I mourn a youth I could have had<br \/> but face a future without regret,<br \/> for the here and now is<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":[11,6,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-metaphysical","category-personal","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","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=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}