{"id":594,"date":"2004-05-04T10:28:30","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T18:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=594"},"modified":"2004-05-04T10:28:30","modified_gmt":"2004-05-04T18:28:30","slug":"poem-in-your-pocket-week-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/04\/poem-in-your-pocket-week-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem In Your Pocket Week: Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"20\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Wild Geese<\/strong>You do not have to be good.<br \/>\nYou do not have to walk on your knees<br \/>\nfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.<br \/>\nYou only have to let the soft animal of your body<br \/>\nlove what it loves.<br \/>\nTell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.<br \/>\nMeanwhile the world goes on.<br \/>\nMeanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain<br \/>\nare moving across the landscapes,<br \/>\nover the prairies and the deep trees,<br \/>\nthe mountains and the rivers.<br \/>\nMeanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,<br \/>\nare heading home again.<br \/>\nWhoever you are, no matter how lonely,<br \/>\nthe world offers itself to your imagination,<br \/>\ncalls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting &#8212;<br \/>\nover and over announcing your place<br \/>\nin the family of things.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Mary Oliver<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div align=\"right\"><a href=\"\/2004\/05\/03\/poem-in-your-pocket-week-introduction\/\">What&#8217;s Poem in Your Pocket Week?<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild GeeseYou do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}