{"id":97259,"date":"2012-09-30T00:07:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T04:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/97259\/poem-apocalypse-now\/"},"modified":"2012-09-30T00:07:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T04:07:04","slug":"poem-apocalypse-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/97259\/poem-apocalypse-now\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Apocalypse Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was written to the featured image on this week’s CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge<\/a>. \u00a0The art is titled “Almost the End” and is by Romanian artist “gyurka.”<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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

APOCALYPSE NOW?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

\n

As arson brought the end of days,
\nand Gabriel blew through smoke\u2019s haze,
\nnoble creatures showed objection
\nto civilized life\u2019s dissection.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

An archetype of good on Earth,
\neagle torso, tree roots and girth,
\nfaced certain destruction bound
\nas smouldering ash cloaked the ground.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Was thus millenia of toil,
\nand thoughtful sense brought to such boil?
\nIncredulous all beings seemed
\nwhile innocent and guilty screamed.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

But wait! Can there be salvation
\nyet, plucked from this consternation?
\nOnly those in the same species
\nmight rescue all from fan-spread feces.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Does rescue come through liberty
\nthough often some will disagree?
\nCan freedom to survive, succeed
\nimpart the strength to sate each need?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Is that why eagle looks so stern?
\nTo see what works set light to burn?
\nAnd more to point, is it too late
\nto halt apocalyptic fate?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright September 29th 2012 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was written to the featured image on this week’s CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge. \u00a0The art is titled “Almost the End” and is by Romanian artist “gyurka.” APOCALYPSE NOW? As arson brought the end of days, and Gabriel blew through smoke\u2019s haze, noble creatures showed objection to civilized life\u2019s dissection. An archetype of good […]<\/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-97259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97259","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=97259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}