{"id":2161,"date":"2022-10-29T07:36:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T07:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2022-10-29T07:36:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T07:36:38","slug":"you-are-my-oasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/29\/you-are-my-oasis\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are My Oasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You Are My Oasis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You are my oasis<br \/>\nThe fertile spot<br \/>\nIn the desert of<br \/>\nMy life &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>From you and only you<br \/>\nWords will flow like water<br \/>\nFrom the underground-well &#8211;<br \/>\nThe spiritual oath<br \/>\nNeeded by poets<br \/>\nWill always be sacred &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>You are my illustration &#8211;<br \/>\nMore than my ideal &#8211;<br \/>\nMy symbol of victory<br \/>\nLike the leaf of a palm-tree &#8211;<br \/>\nBut you are also my pannier &#8211;<br \/>\nA kind of beast of burden<br \/>\nCarrying all the mistakes<br \/>\nI must never make &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>And in the end as in the beginning<br \/>\nYou are my love &#8211;<br \/>\nWhere all poetry<br \/>\nBecomes leopards<br \/>\nWild, untamed and free &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Where panic ends in sleep &#8211;<br \/>\nAnd muddy years have moved away &#8211;<br \/>\nNo rust will settle on your panoply &#8211;<br \/>\nNo brittle speech<br \/>\nWill rot your poems<br \/>\nOr mine &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>You are my open respect<br \/>\nFor bits of typewriters<br \/>\nAnd pieces of white paper &#8211;<br \/>\nAlthough the pain is<br \/>\nTerrible at times &#8211;<br \/>\nYou are my altar<br \/>\nFor a thousand dancing words &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Sh\u00e4nne Sands<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Are My Oasis You are my oasis The fertile spot In the desert of My life &#8211; From you and only you Words will flow like water From the underground-well &#8211; The spiritual oath Needed by poets Will always be sacred &#8211; You are my illustration &#8211; More than my ideal &#8211; My symbol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[650,822],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-shanne-sands","tag-you-are-my-oasis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}