{"id":101853,"date":"2012-12-30T23:11:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T04:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/101853\/poem-first-night-dreadnaught\/"},"modified":"2012-12-30T23:11:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T04:11:07","slug":"poem-first-night-dreadnaught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/101853\/poem-first-night-dreadnaught\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: First Night Dreadnaught"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was written for the CPC Magic Monday poetry challenge<\/a>, where New Year’s celebrations is the theme.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

\"HappyNewYear\"<\/a><\/p>\n

FIRST NIGHT DREADNAUGHT<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The night before the night before
\nwas much like the night after.
\nThere was much peace, a little war,
\nsome anger and some laughter.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

T’was not until the night before
\nthe party became earnest.
\nThen merriment erased the bore
\nand forgot the sternest.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

But what did celebrating mean,
\nan ending or a start,
\nor something in between:
\ndead horse ahead of cart?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

For if we see the truthful scenes
\nbefore the celebrations,
\nnational debt beyond our means
\nmight merit hesitations.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Disarmament plot weavery
\nleaves helpless vulnerable;
\nwhile fiscal cliff’s planned thievery
\nrobs those who are most able.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Massive voting fraud’s ignored.
\nResult is called democracy.
\nThe bull of justice has been gored
\nby rankest hypocrisy.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Commander gets our thanks, hats doff
\nwhen evil serves his vanity.
\nThe steepest cliff we’re riding off
\nis marked clearly: “sanity.”<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Perhaps a more uncertain year
\nhas never loomed ahead.
\nBy end we will have failed, I fear
\nto vanquish all the dread.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright December 30th 2012 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n

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This was written for the CPC Magic Monday poetry challenge, where New Year’s celebrations is the theme. FIRST NIGHT DREADNAUGHT The night before the night before was much like the night after. There was much peace, a little war, some anger and some laughter. T’was not until the night before the party became earnest. Then […]<\/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-101853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101853","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=101853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}