{"id":1435,"date":"2014-03-30T06:13:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T11:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2014-03-29T11:23:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T16:23:05","slug":"poem-let-us-join-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/30\/poem-let-us-join-together\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Let Us Join Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Let us join together<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Leaving behind creed and class<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Races and titles <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Just walking the walk<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">And occasional talk<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Working side by side with hands and hearts<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Playing in fields with horizons stretching<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">And resting without fences or locks<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Taking in awe<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">That life has to nourish us<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">To keep us growing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Giving freely<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">That which cannot be bought<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The hopeful poem is an invitation to leave behind the apparent dystopia that reigns so prevalently.\u00a0 This poem offers a vision and a broad formula of what a more utopian existence would look like and how to get there.\u00a0 Hope invites.\u00a0 Hope is a communal thing.\u00a0 Feel free to invite others.\u00a0 Feel free.\u00a0 Who knows, one day we might just discover that we are free&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us join together Leaving behind creed and class Races and titles Just walking the walk And occasional talk Working side by side with hands and hearts Playing in fields with horizons stretching And resting without fences or locks Taking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/30\/poem-let-us-join-together\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[294,598,431,388,359,594,658,94,53,597,380],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-awe","tag-dystopia","tag-heart","tag-hope","tag-life","tag-play","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-short-poems","tag-utopia","tag-work"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Let Us Join Together | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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