{"id":18264,"date":"2011-02-23T21:51:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T02:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/18264\/free-style-poetry-ponderings-spiritual\/"},"modified":"2011-02-23T21:51:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T02:51:23","slug":"free-style-poetry-ponderings-spiritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/18264\/free-style-poetry-ponderings-spiritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Free style poetry or ponderings of the spiritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\">I feel a great loneliness reaching out, and I decide to walk outside.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\">It&#8217;s dark. The only lights to be seen are the stars in the sky, and the glow of near by neighbor&#8217;s house. It&#8217;s eerily quiet, only the sound of a few dogs off in the distance trying to console one another. No other sounds to be heard. No wind, no insects, no frogs, no birds, no traffic, no radios.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\">Alone with my thoughts in the night.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\">Looking at the sky, I am reminded of a beautiful ocean sparkling in the moonlight. The clouds are wavy and bright against a darker background sky with lots of twinkling stars.  As above, so below, comes to mind. I often wonder if the people who were studying the stars, in the beginning, see and feel as I do now. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\">I picture a large man in robes gazing into a pool of water. He sees the stars, and realizes that not only the sky but the Earth is made up of stars, and that we are part on that eternal fire.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\">I feel this every time I star gaze. I often wonder If I was that man.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\">The Goddess works in mysterious ways.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel a great loneliness reaching out, and I decide to walk outside. It&#8217;s dark. The only lights to be seen are the stars in the sky, and the glow of near by neighbor&#8217;s house. It&#8217;s eerily quiet, only the sound of a few dogs off in the distance trying to console one another. No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18264","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=18264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}