{"id":344205,"date":"2021-05-14T06:04:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T20:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=344205"},"modified":"2021-05-14T06:04:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T20:04:15","slug":"virtue-vices-peace-chaos-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/virtue-vices-peace-chaos-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtue &#038; Vices: Peace &#038; Chaos Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chaotic Myopic Optic<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe sun also rose above ground recently froze<br \/>\nstorm clouds and fatigue slowed my dressing<br \/>\nand kept my room and sad mood in the dark.<br \/>\nAs The World Turns no longer soaps the tube<br \/>\nbut its unceasingly delivering cold as I shiver.<br \/>\nChaos slowed down for another day clowning<br \/>\naround life\u2019s circus as I walked along the river<br \/>\ntopsy turvey running ahead baiting the hooks\u00a0<br \/>\nsearching through crannies and narrow nooks<br \/>\nstopping starting my bewildered brain farting.<br \/>\nStop it? No way! The sun will surely rise up\u00a0<br \/>\ntomorrow; joy, sorrow, and doggerel departing.<br \/>\nChaotic confusion odd illusion kettle on the boil<br \/>\nlogic burns in the toaster of life\u2019s roller coaster.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>A Sonorous Release of Peace<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA peaceful sonorous sonnet filled with word twisters<br \/>\ngets a lease, increases peace, prayers to Saint Therese.<br \/>\nHow do I know brothers and sisters? Many resistors<br \/>\nheard the joyous song and bumble of birds and bees.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nClouds fly away, sun out now, encouraged by gravity\u2019s<br \/>\nrainbow, wearing a shimmering multicolored chemise.<br \/>\nDistant galaxies and black holes practice no surcease<br \/>\nwhile back on earth neutrinos blow in a tranquil breeze.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOnline photos of children of my nephews and nieces<br \/>\nsome creativity still resides in my failing mental cavities<br \/>\nas the sounds of children\u2019s loving laughter increases<br \/>\nacrobatic elements of universal peace on life\u2019s trapeze.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWhen we \u2018stop the violence and increase the peace\u2019<br \/>\ntranquility reigns supreme as we catch some ZZZ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joey &#8216;Pepe Batbon&#8217; Connolly (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Joey \u201cPepe Batbon\u201d Connolly is a retired teacher and has been named a poet laureate of Tinian. He has taught English in CNMI public schools for the past 30 years. He has also taught in Alaska, New Orleans, and Las Vegas.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaotic Myopic Optic \u00a0 The sun also rose above ground recently froze storm clouds and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":322001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,304,5148],"class_list":["post-344205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-las-vegas","tag-new-orleans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344205","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=344205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}