{"id":360676,"date":"2022-01-28T06:02:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T20:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=360676"},"modified":"2022-01-28T06:02:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T20:02:46","slug":"on-time-some-poems-for-your-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/on-time-some-poems-for-your-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"On Time! Some poems for your homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cIn the time of your life, live\u2014so that in that wondrous time\u00a0<br \/>\nyou shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world,<br \/>\nbut shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.\u201d <\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014from The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan (1908 \u2013 1981)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Space Time Curving Around the Sun<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Time flies, flees, brings COVID-19 virus disease<br \/>\nit can pass slowly if you\u2019re having fun or not<br \/>\nif anti vax anti mask or anxious not at ease<br \/>\nwhen you get sick find out what it is you got<\/p>\n<p>Time, tide, and taxes are said to wait for no man<br \/>\ntaxes have a deadline avoided by most of the rich<br \/>\nmiddle class pays most, an upper-class cheating plan<br \/>\nincreases losses, decreases values, lies like a SOB<\/p>\n<p>Time\u2019s on your side, can do no wrong, know the song<br \/>\n\u201ctime has come today \u201d as Chambers Bros. still sing<br \/>\nit is time to come time to go time lasts all day long<br \/>\ntiming not right, time is tight, time\u2019s a yearly fling<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the time of your life, live\u201d don\u2019t do time for crime<br \/>\nlaugh cry love be happy and please take your time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tempon Uchan Gi Tasin Susupe<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(Rainy season on Susupe Beach)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201csudden rain blots out day, thunders down.<br \/>\n\u00a0I search for empty blue sky, but it is gone.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014Chinese poet, Wang Wei, (701-761 CE).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Intermittent rain on a gray overcast day<br \/>\nnot a trace of blue in the sky all day today<br \/>\ntide shuffles in and out on Susupe Beach<br \/>\nmilitary prepositioning ships are out of reach<br \/>\nI fear there is damage to CNMI coral reefs<br \/>\nas anchors drag them for months on end<br \/>\nperhaps not as bad as some local beliefs<br \/>\nis there money to investigate left to spend<br \/>\nthe sky clears for a New Year\u2019s new moon<br \/>\nmothers and dads bring infants into the water<br \/>\nolder children enter the blue lagoon soon<br \/>\nlearning to swim each son and daughter<br \/>\nhere on the beach a thrown talaya net<br \/>\ncatching *e\u2019e\u2019 tiao or mafuti you can bet.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Chamorro names for three kinds of small reef fish<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By JOEY \u2018PEPE BATBON\u2019 CONNOLLY (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Joey 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":"<p>\u201cIn the time of your life, live\u2014so that in that wondrous time\u00a0 you shall not&#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":[26,21,23673,13843],"class_list":["post-360676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-life","tag-nola","tag-pepe-batbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360676","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=360676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}