We are often asked to give\/to Red Cross\/a typhoon loss\/
\nour families\/our in-laws\/Santa Claus\/a teddy bear\/
\na cancer rare\/needy hungry people here, there, everywhere
\nwhen someone\u2019s house burns\/ What are our returns?
\nWhat do we learn? What do we take home? Read the poem.<\/p>\n
AN ALPHABETICAL SHAKE BETWEEN GIVE and TAKE<\/strong><\/p>\n Give it all away – take an attitude Now you have some choices for give and for take This is also an abecedarian poem like my earlier haiku\/senryu calendar for April in the April 8, 2015, edition of Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n AJI? NO MO! POTFABOT<\/strong> Salty bites tastes and ignites LIMERICKS FOR MASERS AND LIGHT YEAR LASERS<\/strong><\/p>\n #1. There once was a naked singularity #2. There once was a single black hole #3. Some theorize a BIG BANG was our start #4. Famous cosmologist Stephen Hawking A SKY FULL OF PATHOS and MIRTH<\/strong><\/p>\n I could read the sky and make decisions EPIGRAM FOR PIZZA<\/strong><\/p>\n Who ate the pepperoni pizza? Joey \u2018Pepe Batbon\u2019 Connolly<\/strong> We are often asked to give\/to Red Cross\/a typhoon loss\/ our families\/our in-laws\/Santa Claus\/a teddy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3721,559,3722,886],"class_list":["post-198942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-style","tag-msg","tag-red-cross","tag-stephen-hawking","tag-susupe-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Give bucks benevolently – take a break
\n Give conscientiously – that takes the cake
\n Give a down payment – please take a dozen
\n Give even more – take that for example
\n Give fun to friends forever – time to take five
\n Give grace and goodness gently – take a guess
\n Give healthy habits a home – take a hike
\n Give an inch incognito – take an inch
\n Give justice give joy – take a jump for joy
\n Give kazillions of kindness – take a kiss
\n Give lots of love – take your lumps take less
\n Give more meaningfully – take no more
\n Give new ideas a chance – take nothing less
\n Give with open arms – take only what you need
\n Give peace a chance – take friendly pictures
\n Give quiet comfort – take quiet seriously
\n Give romance a chance – take romance for a walk
\n Give someone a big hug – take that hug to heart
\n Give tenderness a try – take time to listen
\n Give up that anger – take up gentle persuasion
\n Give with vigor – take victory with love
\n Give warm fuzzies – freely take warm fuzzies
\n Give x-rays to sincerity – take x-rays of sincerity
\n Give your heart with all your might – take your time
\n Give zany zingers – take zany zingers<\/p>\n
\nIf you don\u2019t try any go poopy and jump in Susupe Lake<\/p>\n
\nAjinomoto (MSG) on death\u2019s plate<\/p>\n
\nTaste buds against food duds
\nSalivation sensation soon excites
\nAll the tongues salivation buds
\nMSG laboratory analysis
\nHooked up with sour so salty
\nMay lead up to kidney dialysis
\nRegardless if diagnosis faulty
\nSo there is monosodium glutamate
\nDisguised with something sweet
\nDescribed as a complement
\nwith something required to eat
\nDoes this start dietary death at an early age?
\nTaste it try it you\u2019ll begin the initial stage<\/p>\n
\nthat was not just a cosmic rarity
\ntraveling beyond its event threshold
\ngrowing despite gravity younger but old
\nwith general relative quantum theoretical parity<\/p>\n
\ndarker than darkest anthracite coal
\nat the center of the Milky Way
\nit sucked in stars and held sway
\nin kind of a cosmic rock and roll<\/p>\n
\nbeginning with a serious \u2018singularity\u2019 fart
\nexpanding & growing with relative speed into
\ngalaxies, black holes, stars, and planets too
\nnow BIG CRUNCH theory says we\u2019ll depart<\/p>\n
\nleft first time observers of him gawking
\nmute, crippled in a wheel chair, needing a nurse
\nhe examines and explains the universe
\nwith his computer doing all the talking<\/p>\n
\nBut now I think I really have no need
\nSince singers, writers, and musicians
\nPlant and nourish our brain with seed
\nI could read a sky world of make believe
\nAnd see occasional writing in it too
\nWhen jets, biplanes, and prop planes leave
\nContrails and signed notes up there in the blue
\nI could read the sky above and the mud below
\nVillages, towns, and great cities of the earth
\nBut have to wonder why as down the road I go
\nThose artists do so well with pathos and mirth
\nYou too can read the sky just like an open book
\nHear the music in your heart and take another look<\/p>\n
\nI said Pepe Batbon Connolly
\nThe whole thing by me only
\nNow I smile like Mona Lisa<\/p>\n
\n(Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"