{"id":79,"date":"1985-01-06T08:47:41","date_gmt":"1985-01-06T16:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:17:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:17:01","slug":"conquerors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/01\/06\/conquerors\/","title":{"rendered":"Conquerors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heaven&#8217;s waters gathered,<br \/>\nAnd moving gases alone,<br \/>\nIncite memories and emotions<br \/>\nWhose range cannot be known.<br \/>\nBy some is felt elation;<br \/>\nOthers fear the furies<br \/>\nThe stratospheres release,<br \/>\nBut few revere the beauty<br \/>\nIn a single drop it seems,<br \/>\nThough they fall in millions &#8211;<br \/>\nEach soaking, cleansing one &#8211;<br \/>\nFanned on by ocean breezes . . . .<\/p>\n<p>Ah! the memories stirred:<br \/>\nBoth those remembered and not.<br \/>\nAnother breed of spirit<br \/>\nWhose reverie lay<br \/>\nIn other than the beauty:<br \/>\nTheirs was and still remains<br \/>\nThe hopeless challenge<br \/>\nTo conquer nature&#8217;s art,<br \/>\nMore for self-esteem<br \/>\nThan to be an intrinsic part<br \/>\nOf her perfect beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Now would they but learn<br \/>\nTo put the self aside,<br \/>\nAnd recognize the radiant<br \/>\nBeauty in all around,<br \/>\nThen always they&#8217;d be joyous,<br \/>\nNot only as &#8217;tis now &#8211;<br \/>\nWhenever they feel they&#8217;ve conquered<br \/>\nThe highest, fastest or longest.<\/p>\n<p>But no matter what they claim,<br \/>\nAlways,<br \/>\nOne better remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heaven&#8217;s waters gathered,<br \/> And moving gases alone,<br \/> Incite memories and emotions<br \/> Whose range cannot be known.<br \/> By some is felt elation;<br \/> Others fear the furies<br \/> The stratospheres release,<br \/> But few revere the beauty<br \/> In a single drop it seems,<br \/> Though they fall in millions &#8211;<br \/> Each soaking, cleansing one &#8211;<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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}