{"id":3281,"date":"2019-07-01T11:11:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T16:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2019-07-01T11:12:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T16:12:48","slug":"poem-weathering-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/01\/poem-weathering-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Weathering Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>They could<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Not no<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Weather humanity<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Had<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Arrived<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>At that bottleneck<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Passibly a birth canal<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Or river Styx<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Too cross<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Dammed possibility<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Or mirror probabilities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/CONFORMITY-It-s-Safer-That-Way-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/CONFORMITY-It-s-Safer-That-Way.gif\" alt=\"CONFORMITY - It's Safer That Way POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/The-Opposite-of-Courage-In-Our-Society-Is-Not-Cowardice-It-Is-Conformity-Rollo-May-quote-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/The-Opposite-of-Courage-In-Our-Society-Is-Not-Cowardice-It-Is-Conformity-Rollo-May-quote.gif\" alt=\"The Opposite of Courage In Our Society Is Not Cowardice; It Is Conformity -- Rollo May quote POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>Humanity, with its profound possibilities and asinine algorithms, perpetually wrests at the juncture of tantalizing yet precarious hope and uninspiring yet reliably predictable means. Hope springing may necessitate saying no to safe predictability to make space for actions that clearly resonate with our hopes and dreams. Nevertheless, whatever we no, I suspect that a big &#8220;YES!&#8221; may be the most infallible sign in steering a true course.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Martin-Luther-King\/Buttons\/The-hope-of-a-secure-and-livable-world-lies-with-disciplined-nonconformists-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Martin-Luther-King\/the-hope-secure-livable-world-disciplined-nonconformists.gif\" alt=\"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists--Martin Luther King, Jr. BUTTON\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They could Not no Weather humanity Had Arrived At that bottleneck Passibly a birth canal Or river Styx Too cross Dammed possibility Or mirror probabilities Humanity, with its profound possibilities and asinine algorithms, perpetually wrests at the juncture of tantalizing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/01\/poem-weathering-humanity\/\">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":[678,780,393,388,305,658,94,424,53,421],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-algorithm","tag-conformity","tag-dreams","tag-hope","tag-humanity","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-possibility","tag-short-poems","tag-truth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Weathering Humanity | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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