{"id":1705,"date":"2016-03-08T07:42:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T07:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illumination2.wordpress.com\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2016-03-08T07:42:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T07:42:11","slug":"dragonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/08\/dragonfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragonfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dragonfly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I owe God a question<br \/>\nAnd I know he will answer<br \/>\nI love it when it rains<br \/>\nI love the feel on my face<br \/>\nI love the thunder<br \/>\nI love the lightning<br \/>\nI love the crashing of the waves<\/p>\n<p>I owe God a question<br \/>\nBut first I will be refreshed by the heavens<br \/>\nI want to go running through the night<br \/>\nFree to shoot up like an arrow to the sky<br \/>\nThen fall like dead-weight back to earth<br \/>\nTurning and twisting at the last<br \/>\nLike a dragonfly skimming lightly over the waters<\/p>\n<p>What is Liberty?<br \/>\nWhat is hope?<br \/>\nWhat is freedom<br \/>\nWhat is life itself?<\/p>\n<p>I owe God a question<br \/>\nBut I am distracted by the rain<br \/>\nI am back in my boyhood days<br \/>\nIn my dorm lying on my bunk<br \/>\nLooking through the window<br \/>\nThe heavens weeping for joy<br \/>\nWhile I ponder the sadness<br \/>\nThat comes with the longing for home<\/p>\n<p>I owe God a question<br \/>\nBut I am busy listening to the rain<br \/>\nI like the music of the drops on the roof<br \/>\nI like the smell of the water in the field<br \/>\nI like the mud sucking at my feet<br \/>\nLike fairy fetters made of soil<\/p>\n<p>I owe God a question<br \/>\nBut that is for later when I see His face<br \/>\nRight now I want a pair of wings<br \/>\nTo go skimming through the rain<br \/>\nTattooed by the drops<br \/>\nBuffeted by the winds<br \/>\nLike a dragonfly on the wings!<\/p>\n<p>4:04am 08-March-2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragonfly I owe God a question And I know he will answer I love it when it rains I love the feel on my face I love the thunder I love the lightning I love the crashing of the waves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/08\/dragonfly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[263,296,299,355,390,591,671,981,1002],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-dead-weight","tag-dorm","tag-dragonfly","tag-fairy","tag-freedom","tag-liberty","tag-mud","tag-tattoo","tag-thunder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}