The clergy
\nwho drum into their congregations
\nlitanies that have no bond
\nwith common speech
\nhave begun to worry me as well.<\/p>\n
Until my life began to move
\nacross the hill and down
\nI was unaware that God
\nwas such a complicated man.
\nHe was never Latin to me
\nnor Sanskrit till translation.<\/p>\n
I want a man
\nthat I can understand
\nto govern me,
\nfor I need love
\nand understanding too.
\nAnd so I hope that God the friend
\nand not the father
\nwill come banging on my door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The clergy who drum into their congregations litanies that have no bond with common speech have begun to worry me as well. Until my life began to move across the hill and down I was unaware that God was such a complicated man. He was never Latin to me nor Sanskrit till translation. I want … Continue reading “Rod McKuen from “Fields of Wonder””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}