{"id":273003,"date":"2018-04-02T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=273003"},"modified":"2018-04-02T06:00:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T20:00:54","slug":"april-national-poetry-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/april-national-poetry-month\/","title":{"rendered":"April is National Poetry Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tinian Moonlight Memories<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Night time southeast cliff notes<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe moon reflects on the water<br \/>\nlighting the waves but it never gets wet<br \/>\nit is the sun\u2019s loving darling daughter<br \/>\noceans use its changes all they can get<br \/>\nThe moon lights up clouds in the sky<br \/>\nicy circles surrounding it are reflected<br \/>\non tropic nights when looking up high<br \/>\ncool winds from the north are expected<br \/>\nTonight I reflect on the passing of loved ones<br \/>\nfrom my family and many life long friends<br \/>\ncomforted by moonlight reflecting sunlight<br \/>\nknowing the birth to death cycle never ends<br \/>\nSoft raindrops on my face more coming soon<br \/>\nmix with teardrops under a changing moon<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Sirius the Dog Star Sings<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>-in Canis Major, the Year of the Dog 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the cliffs high above the ocean<br \/>\nstarlight shines over Pacific calm<br \/>\nthe Milky Way divides the sky<br \/>\nabove my head hangs Orion\u2019s belt<br \/>\nplanets rise slowly in the east<br \/>\non Mother earth\u2019s spinning wheel<br \/>\nviewed from northern Long Beach<br \/>\non clear nights across the reef<br \/>\nJupiter shines on tranquil water<br \/>\ntonight its clear and is easy to see<br \/>\ntyphoon season is coming soon<br \/>\nfresh water springs bubble near the shore<br \/>\na winter hexagram of bright stars<br \/>\nframes Betelgeuse on Orion\u2019s shoulder<br \/>\nin the Big Dog constellation Sirius sings<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Turn Page After Page in Good Reading Light<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Inspired by Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night, written for his father by Dylan Thomas b.10\/27\/1914, d. 11\/09\/1953.<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSkip those cheap romance novels tonight<br \/>\nyou\u2019ll have time enough some other day<br \/>\nbut turn page after page in good reading light<br \/>\ntry a biography or something on starlight<br \/>\nbecause their words and world surround you<br \/>\nlife events similar to your own cosmic twilight<br \/>\ngood books take looks at life and its plight<br \/>\nwhere particle physics interference holds sway<br \/>\ntrue tales big bangs and subsequent star flight<br \/>\ndon\u2019t leave out poetry, some new but more old<br \/>\ntrue lives of heroes from yesteryear and yesterday<br \/>\nread of cosmos expansion turning dark and cold<br \/>\ntake care of your eyes as day turns to night<br \/>\nturn page after page in good reading light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tinian Moonlight Memories Night time southeast cliff notes \u00a0 The moon reflects on the water&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20640,21,16617,20641],"class_list":["post-273003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-big-dog","tag-life","tag-national-poetry-month","tag-tinian-moonlight-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273003","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}