{"id":100336,"date":"2012-11-22T23:49:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T04:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/100336\/poem-pilgrims-progress\/"},"modified":"2012-11-22T23:49:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T04:49:54","slug":"poem-pilgrims-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/100336\/poem-pilgrims-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Pilgrims’ Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was written to the “fable with a moral lesson of courage and perseverance” theme of the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n


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PILGRIMS’ PROGRESS <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

I hear it said that the Pilgrims weren’t so great
\nbecause Jamestown was settled at an earlier date.
\nMore important, Puritan Pilgrims could not agree
\nabout how authoritarian and communal their society should be.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Then there is how they robbed the natives of land
\n(though the victims had no notion of ownership at hand).
\nWars were provoked to justify murder and thieving,
\nwhile innocent native tribes were left grieving.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

But such negatives show a basic unwillingness
\nto give any doubt benefit, to see no good in their business,
\nwhich makes one suspect there are motives ulterior
\nor at least a jaundiced view of life lies in their interior.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

For it cannot be denied that the Pilgrims were brave
\nto travel so far while risking a damp ocean grave.
\nOnce they had finally arrived over here,
\neach one and all had plenty to fear.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

That was a purpose of giving their thanks
\nfor all the live bodies which remained in their ranks;
\nand for all of the bounty they had managed to make
\nor find, it was time to share rather than take.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The moral of their story should inspire not depress,
\nfor it took courage and perseverence at its best,
\nboth to make the long journey to unknown locations,
\nthen stake their very lives in brand new situations.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright November 22nd 2012 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was written to the “fable with a moral lesson of courage and perseverance” theme of the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. PILGRIMS’ PROGRESS I hear it said that the Pilgrims weren’t so great because Jamestown was settled at an earlier date. More important, Puritan Pilgrims could not agree about how authoritarian and communal their […]<\/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-100336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100336","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=100336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}