{"id":392167,"date":"2023-05-23T06:06:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T20:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=392167"},"modified":"2023-05-23T06:06:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T20:06:21","slug":"may-runes-numbers-and-nods-to-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/may-runes-numbers-and-nods-to-tunes\/","title":{"rendered":"May Runes: Numbers and Nods to Tunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHerz und Mund und Tat un Leben (Heart and Mouth and Deed\u00a0and Life) is a famous cantata written by Johann Sebastian Bach\u00a0(1685-1750) in 1723. J.S. Bach wrote the music, others wrote the\u00a0text. From it comes the song Jesu, Joy of Man\u2019s Desiring.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHeart and mouth and deed and life<br \/>\nPut together in the words of a musical poem<br \/>\nCutting through the music like a knife<br \/>\nHits the nail on the head and drives it home.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOur heart gets worn out near our death<br \/>\nWhen good and bad deeds have had their run<br \/>\nOur literate lungs seem to lose their breath<br \/>\nAs life stumbles between tragedy and fun.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPut together in a basket covered with skin<br \/>\nBach gave us \u2018Jesu, Joy of Man\u2019s Desiring\u2019<br \/>\nTissues of trouble, desire, and joy worn thin<br \/>\nOur corpus callosum connects the wiring.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJoys, sorrows, happiness meet together in sin<br \/>\nIf you answer this rune you will never begin.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Mother\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0Love: A Complex Googolplex<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBillions of galaxies in the universe we know<br \/>\nBillions of stars in those galaxies galore<br \/>\nBillions of planets where things might grow<br \/>\nBillions of grains of sand on the shore.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMillions of birds fly all around the world<br \/>\nMillions of worms, bugs, and flying insects<br \/>\nMillions of flowers with petals unfurled<br \/>\nMillions of creatures reproduce by sex.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBillions of mothers in the history of Earth<br \/>\nBillions of mothers give all they can give<br \/>\nMillions of mothers annually give birth<br \/>\nMillions of mothers die so that we can live.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMothers teach us all with love and mirth<br \/>\nPouring out their hearts for all it is worth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>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>Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life \u00a0 Herz und Mund und Tat un Leben&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":387597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,23672,23673,13843],"class_list":["post-392167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-lvnv","tag-nola","tag-pepe-batbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392167","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=392167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}