{"id":317218,"date":"2020-02-10T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=317218"},"modified":"2020-02-10T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T20:00:06","slug":"t-o-a-s-t-tinian-officially-a-super-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/t-o-a-s-t-tinian-officially-a-super-time\/","title":{"rendered":"T.O.A.S.T.: Tinian Officially A Super Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tinian Pika Festival Daze<\/strong>
\nTwo weeks before Pika Fest I have to
\ncut and chop plenty tangan tangan trees
\nto roast plenty lechon babuis
\na few days before Pika Fest I have to
\npumupeska para bai bula ayuyu
\nthe first day of Pika Fest who did I see
\nold Tinian maestro, poet Joey Connolly
\nthat night who was looking at the moon
\nout on the cliffs? It was Pepe Batbon
\nnext night si Pepe got todudo bulacho
\ndriven home by his kutzu Joe Camacho
\nat the gayera he bet on the \u2018side short\u2019
\nand won forty dollars I\u2019m happy to report
\nHatch vs. Perkins my guess at Tinian Pika Fest.
\n\u00a0
\n\u201cI loved to trudge the windswept ridge\u2026
\nI walked in simple solitude: unknown I lived my fill.\u201d
\n\u2014J.C.L. Mellersh, on the Cotswald Hills, England, 1933.
\n\u00a0
\nAt Tinian\u2019s Southern Cliffs<\/strong>
\nAlone I sit under the Milky Way
\nWhere Tinian\u2019s southern cliffs meet the sky
\nAlone I gaze at stars far away
\nJets and satellites pass me by
\nI love to walk along the cliff road
\nAnd watch the moon and planets rise
\nHearing waves break on rocks and explode
\nAs darkness comes and stars fill the skies
\nThe Teakettle pours out its Milky Way stream
\n\u2018Cats Eyes\u2019 gleam at the end of the Fish hook
\nPlanets Jupiter and Saturn light up the ocean scene
\nOrion shoots meteor showers and I get a quick look
\nOh that I might go tonight again and walk
\nWhere Tinian\u2019s southern cliffs meet the sky
\nThe Milky Way messages in celestial chalk
\nRemind me of the years remaining before I die.<\/p>\n

Joey ‘Pepe Batbon’ Connolly (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong>
\nJoey aka Pepe Batbon is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is a sonnet practitioner who enjoys stargazing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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