{"id":236739,"date":"2016-09-19T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=236739"},"modified":"2016-09-19T06:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T20:00:27","slug":"poems-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/poems-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prayers and well wishes for MV <em>Luta<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By JOEY \u201cPEPE BATBON\u201d CONNOLLY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ave Maris Stella, Hail Our Lady Star of the Sea<br \/>\nprotehi pot fabot Senot Victor Hocog yan family.<br \/>\nplease protect workers on the MV Luta from harm<br \/>\nwhen rough winds and typhoons make napu na tasi<br \/>\ngive them a calm safe harbor in Tinian yan Saipan<br \/>\nguide them safely back to Rota their home port<br \/>\nlet them dock and unload cargo back on dry land<br \/>\nlet them listen to and hear a good weather report<br \/>\nwe thank them for rescuing folks from the Northern isles<br \/>\nand bringing basic necessities to Rotanese people in need<br \/>\nmedicine, food, and building supplies will bring smiles<br \/>\nwe wish the whole crew of the MV Luta GODSPEED.<br \/>\nmay they come and go sailing with calm winds and tide<br \/>\nbless Our Lady of the Sea and the MV Luta with pride<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who am i to judge?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Dedicated to Pope Francis, who asked<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>By JOEY \u201cPEPE BATBON\u201d CONNOLLY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>the new Argentine pope asked,\u201cWho am I to judge?\u201d<br \/>\nhe felt the Curia was unwilling to budge<br \/>\nprotected in the Papal enclave acreage<br \/>\nused to bearing that Roman Catholic guilt cudgel<br \/>\nonly brief Papal bulletins they had to dodge<br \/>\nin a confessional mode their sins they could fudge<br \/>\ntransgressors of truth many held more than one grudge<br \/>\nno sweat when confronted with a contrite deluge<br \/>\ntill Francis gave them a non prosequitur nudge<br \/>\nlook to the poorest you who need moral courage<br \/>\ndown their path you may begin your penitent trudge<br \/>\nlet love and forgiveness under your red caps lodge<br \/>\nthough you all are part of the Cardinal\u2019s College<br \/>\nhumility should prevail in your sacred knowledge<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph \u201cPepe Batbon\u201d Connolly is a retired CNMI PSS teacher who taught English on Tinian and Saipan from 1984 to 2014. He currently enjoys studying cosmology, Asian poetry, and life on Tinian.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayers and well wishes for MV Luta By JOEY \u201cPEPE BATBON\u201d CONNOLLY Ave Maris Stella,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13439,42,7422,13440],"class_list":["post-236739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-ave-maris-stella","tag-food","tag-roman-catholic","tag-senot-victor-hocog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236739","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}