{"id":385197,"date":"2023-02-13T06:06:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T20:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=385197"},"modified":"2023-02-13T06:06:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T20:06:21","slug":"love-poem-in-the-year-of-the-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/love-poem-in-the-year-of-the-rabbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Poem in the Year of the Rabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c \u2026 A lone bird sings of love and pain<br \/>\n(Oh heart in sorrow garmented<br \/>\nThere\u2019s hope while song can hush the rain.)\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2014an excerpt from Singing In the Rain by Countee Cullen, 1923<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Banana Leaf Rain Song<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nStrong steady winds blow through big banana trees<br \/>\nincreasing islanders \u2018the typhoons coming\u2019 fears<br \/>\nbig rain drops play soft pitter patter symphonies\u00a0<br \/>\nbeating time with thoughts of former typhoon tears<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWhen some bad ones hit their time over us was brief<br \/>\na path across the reef out to the Philippine Sea they led<br \/>\nstill crop damage caused farmers and ranchers grief<br \/>\nsome homes were destroyed but no one was dead<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAlong the beach chung\u00e9 bird pairs on the look out<br \/>\nbanana leaves now compose a more restless tune<br \/>\nin the boonies unknown birds sing and fly about<br \/>\nunderneath dark skies comes a daytime rising moon<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs typhoon rains buffet the houses\u2019 window panes<br \/>\nI sing with birds and banana leaves to hush the rains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c \u2026 A lone bird sings of love and pain (Oh heart in sorrow garmented&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":355846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385197","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=385197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}