{"id":2600,"date":"2012-12-04T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?page_id=2600"},"modified":"2012-12-04T01:21:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T01:21:42","slug":"poetry-martin-squibbs-reforming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/poetry-martin-squibbs-reforming\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry &#8211; Martin Squibbs &#8211; Reforming"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reforming<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In thought, in truth, for sure<br \/>\nConsider these words, and more<br \/>\nThe figures, accounts, amounts, and prose<br \/>\nThis world in which our civility flows<br \/>\nAnd stores our youth, and futures too<br \/>\nSome control at least for me and you<br \/>\nTiny fragments of beyond, in this<br \/>\nWe hold all that we love, and miss<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Forget not though, and keep in mind<br \/>\nthese words of mystery that we find<br \/>\nSprinkled in our church of truth<br \/>\nBetween perfect love and endless youth<br \/>\nCuriosity for one, where do we look<br \/>\nOr mystery, if we dare, to seek<br \/>\nOf theories unproven, dare we speak<br \/>\nUncover, discover, reveal, inform<br \/>\nSome beauty in which life is born<br \/>\nUnknown until it springs in mind<br \/>\nAnd builds more truth in Human Kind<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And if excite you, this discovery fair<br \/>\nAnd carefully we avoid despair<br \/>\nThen let us enter sense,<br \/>\nThe root of consequence<br \/>\nAnd be&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\nAnd see&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<br \/>\nBeauty&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\nSo real, it lies in front of you<br \/>\nWherever and whatever you do<br \/>\nHere, in fear, or fright, or joy<br \/>\nIn any movement you employ<br \/>\nSweet&#8230;.<br \/>\nSour&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\nUgly or fair&#8230;<br \/>\nHere or there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be born now.<br \/>\nLet youth be gone<br \/>\nInstead for wisdom long<br \/>\nSense instead, build it up<br \/>\nOf a Rose, a stream, a buttercup<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Die not in faith and fantasy<br \/>\nLive in awe, reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reforming In thought, in truth, for sure Consider these words, and more The figures, accounts, amounts, and prose This world in which our civility flows And stores our youth, and futures too Some control at least for me and you Tiny fragments of beyond, in this We hold all that we love, and miss Forget &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/poetry-martin-squibbs-reforming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poetry &#8211; Martin Squibbs &#8211; Reforming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2600\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}