{"id":1356,"date":"2008-03-21T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2008-03-21T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T23:07:00","slug":"because-its-been-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2008\/03\/21\/because-its-been-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"because it&#8217;s been too long&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pilgrimgirl\/1402544414\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1025\/1402544414_1623c5b0e2.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/> <span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pilgrimgirl\/1402544414\/\">rudebeckia at Alcott&#8217;s<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/pilgrimgirl\/\">pilgrimgirl<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\"> It&#8217;s been far too long since I&#8217;ve shared a poem.  So here&#8217;s this, a poem for Spring and for <strike>Easter<\/strike> chocolate bunnies and for hope:<\/p>\n<p>    Doubletake<\/p>\n<p>   Human beings suffer,<br \/>   they torture one another,<br \/>   they get hurt and get hard.<br \/>   No poem or play or song<br \/>   can fully right a wrong<br \/>   inflicted and endured.<\/p>\n<p>   The innocent in gaols<br \/>   beat on their bars together.<br \/>   A hunger-striker&#8217;s father<br \/>   stands in the graveyard dumb.<br \/>   The police widow in veils<br \/>   faints at the funeral home<\/p>\n<p>   History says, Don&#8217;t hope<br \/>   on this side of the grave.<br \/>   But then, once in a lifetime<br \/>   the longed for tidal wave<br \/>   of justice can rise up,<br \/>   and hope and history rhyme.<\/p>\n<p>   So hope for a great sea-change<br \/>   on the far side of revenge.<br \/>   Believe that a further shore<br \/>   is reachable from here.<br \/>   Believe in miracles<br \/>   and cures and healing wells.<\/p>\n<p>   Call the miracle self-healing:<br \/>   The utter self-revealing<br \/>   double-take of feeling.<br \/>   if there&#8217;s fire on the mountain<br \/>   or lightning and storm<br \/>   and <strike>a god<\/strike> <i> nature<\/i> speaks from the sky.<\/p>\n<p>   That means someone is hearing<br \/>   the outcry and the birth-cry<br \/>   of new life at its term.<\/p>\n<p>       Seamus Heaney,<br \/>       The Cure at Troy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rudebeckia at Alcott&#8217;s, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl. 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