{"id":415,"date":"1987-07-23T11:23:40","date_gmt":"1987-07-23T18:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:01:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:01:42","slug":"fallen-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1987\/07\/23\/fallen-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the cooling days of autumn,<br \/>\nLeaves fall;<br \/>\nTrees lose their foliage<br \/>\nTo the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Fallen leaves become a<br \/>\nCarpet<br \/>\nFit for all to walk on,<br \/>\nBefore which they<br \/>\nBreak down and<br \/>\nMelt into the soil.<\/p>\n<p>Once part of the soil they are then<br \/>\nTaken up to the<br \/>\nTree by the roots,<br \/>\nTo nourish the same tree<br \/>\nFrom which they fell,<br \/>\nTo ultimately become<br \/>\nThe tree<br \/>\nFrom which they fell.<\/p>\n<p>I am like the leaves,<br \/>\nFallen to earth,<br \/>\nWhere I may nourish the<br \/>\nUniverse with my thought,<br \/>\nAnd in so doing, I shall<br \/>\nBe freed,<br \/>\nShall be returned to<br \/>\nThe universe from which I fell.<\/p>\n<p>I shall nourish the<br \/>\nTree and the leaves, to<br \/>\nAgain become the tree and the leaves,<br \/>\nTo again become a part<br \/>\nOf the universe I left behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the cooling days of autumn,<br \/> Leaves fall;<br \/> Trees lose their foliage<br \/> To the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Fallen leaves become a<br \/> Carpet<br \/> Fit for all to walk on,<br \/> Before which they<br \/> Break down and<br \/> Melt into the soil.<\/p>\n<p>Once part of the soil they are then<br \/> Taken up to the<br \/> Tree by [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-metaphysical","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}