{"id":100118,"date":"2012-11-19T00:07:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T05:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/100118\/poem-country-convergence\/"},"modified":"2012-11-19T00:07:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T05:07:13","slug":"poem-country-convergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/100118\/poem-country-convergence\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Country Convergence"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was written to the featured art on the CPC Simple Sunday Picture Challenge<\/a>. \u00a0The painting is by Bonnie White and is titled “Thanksgiving Day Visitors.”<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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COUNTRY CONVERGENCE<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Here they all come in their canopied carriages,
\nincluding the products of two or three marriages.
\nPossessing virtues which no one disparages
\nSo many divergent talents and heritages.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Oh little town of West-Stow-on-the-Beecham,
\nhow still we see thee tell and live the truth.
\nWhere free self-reliance is what they teach ’em
\nBelief will stay strong when they’re long in the tooth.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

A horse is a horse of course of course,
\nand no one can talk to a horse of course,
\nexcept little Cindy Lou Who in the yard.
\nA real phenomenon in which she has starred..<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Further up yonder lives the Fool on the Hill,
\nwho employs some unknown but lucrative skill.
\nNo one has seen him in months, even years,
\nbut this Thanksgiving Day, he will come, bearing beers.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

This is the time when both nobles and bumpkins
\nare all of them up to their pippicks in pumpkins.
\nBundles of cornstalks stand, dried by Fall wind,
\ndecorate beigely while centrally pinned.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Here are West Stow folk enjoying Thanksgiving,
\ngathered together to celebrate living.
\nBit of perfection ‘ere winter arrives.
\nLove’s intersection where affection thrives.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright November 18th 2012 RGD<\/font>
\n Inspired by “Thanksgiving Day Visitors” by Bonnie White<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was written to the featured art on the CPC Simple Sunday Picture Challenge. \u00a0The painting is by Bonnie White and is titled “Thanksgiving Day Visitors.” COUNTRY CONVERGENCE Here they all come in their canopied carriages, including the products of two or three marriages. Possessing virtues which no one disparages So many divergent talents and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}