{"id":385342,"date":"2023-02-15T06:06:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=385342"},"modified":"2023-02-15T06:06:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T20:06:06","slug":"love-poem-for-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/love-poem-for-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Poem for February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cNothing endures, not even love<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Though the warm heart purrs of the length thereof\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014Countee Cullen (b. 1903 \u2014 d. 1946)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nothing Endures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Appreciation of life\u2019s beauty, understanding of love grows<\/p>\n<p>As we do \u2013 upwards and onwards towards a full moon<\/p>\n<p>Fades in time as we grow older in both body and brain<\/p>\n<p>As the monthly cycles of every moon wax and wane.<\/p>\n<p>Let it rip, go for it, go for the gusto, catch it while you can<\/p>\n<p>Let your blood blush rush and bloom inside life\u2019s living room<\/p>\n<p>Let it flourish nourish and flower before you meet your doom<\/p>\n<p>Let it flow back and forth, the sum of your corpus callosum<\/p>\n<p>Eventually time and torrid tides will recede as love\u2019s cycles<\/p>\n<p>Revolve and slowly evolve towards our final dissolve<\/p>\n<p>Then eternal darkness for eggs and sperm with the worms<\/p>\n<p>As this sad, funny, and little old lovely world slowly turns.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Joey Connolly, b. 1949 \u2014 still among the living and loving)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNirvana gapes for all things given;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nothing escapes, Love not even.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014Countee Cullen<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNothing endures, not even love Though the warm heart purrs of the length thereof\u201d \u2014Countee&#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-385342","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\/385342","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=385342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385342\/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=385342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}