{"id":2408,"date":"2007-07-27T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:27:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:27:01","slug":"poetry-friday-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2408","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday:  A Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbudbill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Budhill<\/a> is a hermit, a Zen poet, a playwright, YA author, essayist and lecturer; a musician, a scholar, and a dove in a world of hawks. The little poem of his, &#8220;What We Need&#8221; is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbudbill.com\/wwsgf.html\" target=\"_blank\">While We&#8217;ve Still Got Feet<\/a> \u00a9 Copper Canyon Press. Here&#8217;s hoping that you take a moment to dance this weekend &#8212; while you&#8217;ve still got yours.<\/p>\n<p>What We Need<\/p>\n<p>The Emperor,<br \/>his bullies<br \/>and henchmen<br \/>terrorize the world<br \/>every day,<\/p>\n<p>which is why<br \/>every day<\/p>\n<p>we need<\/p>\n<p>a little poem<br \/>of kindness,<\/p>\n<p>a small song<br \/>of peace<\/p>\n<p>a brief moment<br \/>of joy.<a href=\"http:\/\/maclibrary.edublogs.org\/2007\/07\/27\/poetry-friday-it-is-happening-here\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check It Out!<\/a> Poetry Friday is being hosted by MsMac. And don&#8217;t miss the loveliness that is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherreader.com\/2007\/07\/poetry-friday-summer-poem-ii-summer.html\" target=\"_blank\">the summer poem series<\/a>, where we all became the poem. Tr\u00e9s cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Budhill is a hermit, a Zen poet, a playwright, YA author, essayist and lecturer; a musician, a scholar, and a dove in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,10],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry-friday","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4210,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/4210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}