{"id":261448,"date":"2017-10-02T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=261448"},"modified":"2017-10-02T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T20:00:24","slug":"dadalak-octubre-keeping-company-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/dadalak-octubre-keeping-company-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Dadalak Octubre (Keeping Company with October)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To My Wife Far Away<\/strong><br \/>\nWhere have all the *chunge\u2019 gone<br \/>\nsoaring off in angelic pairs<br \/>\nwas it these gentle October rains<br \/>\nthat have awakened me<br \/>\nwhile I sleep outside<br \/>\nout walking and stargazing<br \/>\non the southern cliffs of Tinian<br \/>\nthe Teakettle and Fishhook<br \/>\nconstellations remind me of you<br \/>\nbut I have no oolong left<br \/>\nand you are far far away<br \/>\nin northern Manchuria<br \/>\nvisiting your ailing mother<br \/>\nthe rain washes away my tears.<br \/>\n(chunge\u2019 is the Chamorro word<br \/>\nfor a white tailed tropic bird that<br \/>\nsoars in pairs over Tinian.)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>October Full Moon Mercy<\/strong><br \/>\nThis evening a harvest moon shines full<br \/>\nit is a full moon all over the world<br \/>\nin the seas and oceans tides give a pull<br \/>\nno matter what countries flag unfurled<br \/>\nit shines down on a world in sorrow<br \/>\nrefugees fill camps in Asia &amp; the Middle East<br \/>\nmore filled in Africa and Europe tomorrow<br \/>\nfamilies broken no food no water no peace<br \/>\non top of all that comes a nuclear threat<br \/>\ninsults hurled by leaders no diplomacy<br \/>\ncausing people all over the world to sweat<br \/>\nlets hope and pray for some sort of normalcy<br \/>\na prayer now to the gods of all world religions<br \/>\nSend doves of peace. Stop hatred\u2019s divisions.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Yo! Ma Yoyo, Yoyo Ma, a sonnet<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(for Yoyo Ma on his 62nd\u00a0birthday)<\/em><br \/>\nYo! Yoyo Ma, Ma Yoyo<br \/>\nmore and more por favor<br \/>\ngo go go go go go<br \/>\ntake care of muscles sore<br \/>\nplease Mister Yoyo Ma<br \/>\nkeep it up serious and mellow<br \/>\nwe thank your Ma and Pa<br \/>\ndon\u2019t stop bowing that cello<br \/>\nsolo on J.S. Bach\u2019s cello suites<br \/>\nand all along the desert Silk Road<br \/>\nAfrican and Appalachian treats<br \/>\nDun\u2019s Tigers and Dragons all explode<br \/>\nxie xie for all those different directions<br \/>\nlooking toward more musical resurrections.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Happy The Toilet Flushes<\/strong><br \/>\nI am happy that the bathroom toilet flushes<br \/>\nNewton\u2019s theory was right and gravity works<br \/>\nthe toilet handle is used and some water gushes<br \/>\na cesspool takes all from good folks and jerks<br \/>\nsome people might call me a bit Pollyannaish<br \/>\nenjoying both rain and sun on a regular basis<br \/>\nI go for underdogs in competitions start to finish<br \/>\ndislike hurricanes typhoons I like atmospheric stasis<br \/>\nI\u2019m not big on gold mirrors or narcissistic nitwits<br \/>\nhappy with echoes, yodels, dogs howling at the moon<br \/>\n* Tallis, von Bingen, Jordi Savall give me ecstatic fits<br \/>\nall kinds of poems from hiphop back to Celtic rune<br \/>\nI\u2019m happy that life\u2019s music goes round and round<br \/>\nand that if you look joy in life can always be found.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) English composer. Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) German composer. Jordi Savall (1941 to present) viola da gamba player, medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To My Wife Far Away Where have all the *chunge\u2019 gone soaring off in angelic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18511,21,7385,67],"class_list":["post-261448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-jordi-savall","tag-life","tag-mister-yoyo-ma","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261448","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}