{"id":119,"date":"2019-07-04T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/04\/a-poem-for-thursday-39\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T21:17:10","slug":"a-poem-for-thursday-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/04\/a-poem-for-thursday-39\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #39"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190626_104928-768x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190626_104928-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I spent last week hiking through woods and enjoying the peace and calmness of nature. This poem, by David Wagoner, seemed fitting.<\/p>\n<p><i>Stand still.\u00a0 The trees ahead and bushes beside you<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Are not lost.\u00a0 Wherever you are is called Here,<\/i><br \/>\n<i>And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Must ask permission to know it and be known.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>The forest breathes.\u00a0 Listen.\u00a0 It answers,<\/i><br \/>\n<i>I have made this place around you.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>If you leave it, you may come back again saying Here.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>No two trees are the same to Raven.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>No two branches are the same to Wren.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,<\/i><br \/>\n<i>You are surely lost.\u00a0 Stand still.\u00a0 The forest knows<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Where you are.\u00a0 You must let it find you.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Lost<\/i><br \/>\nDavid Wagoner<i>\u00a0<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\nAs usual, Reese, at <a href=\"https:\/\/reesewarner.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/poem-for-thursday-lazarus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Typings<\/a>, is sharing a poem too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent last week hiking through woods and enjoying the peace and calmness of nature. This poem, by David Wagoner, seemed fitting. Stand still.\u00a0 The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost.\u00a0 Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes.\u00a0 Listen.\u00a0 It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may come back again saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost.\u00a0 Stand still.\u00a0 The forest knows Where you are.\u00a0 You must let it find you. Lost David Wagoner\u00a0 As usual, Reese, at Typings, is sharing a poem too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem-for-a-thursday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}