{"id":727,"date":"2012-10-07T00:08:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T05:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=727"},"modified":"2012-10-06T14:19:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T19:19:22","slug":"poem-longer-speaking-terms-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/poem-longer-speaking-terms-god\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: No Longer on Speaking Terms with God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I am no longer on speaking terms with God<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">She keeps pouring drink into my cup overflowing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">And I no longer have the heart to say when<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Only ever with a rye smile<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Would she say to me &#8220;eat me&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">She is so much better bred than that<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">She is the host for me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">And not often best served en masse<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Words and rituals will always fall short of the true glory of God. \u00a0However, this doesn&#8217;t mean that we can&#8217;t experience God in a rich and robust way. \u00a0With tongue-in-cheek, God &#8220;rudely&#8221; keeps heaping blessings upon me, in such a way that if I fully take it in, then I will likely appear as a babbling drunk in most any conventional setting. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure what more to say, except that I am eager for my next visit to God&#8217;s speakeasy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am no longer on speaking terms with God She keeps pouring drink into my cup overflowing And I no longer have the heart to say when Only ever with a rye smile Would she say to me &#8220;eat me&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/poem-longer-speaking-terms-god\/\">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":[8,9],"tags":[428,10,65,255,431,658,94,106],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-poems","category-poems","tag-experience","tag-funny","tag-god","tag-gratitude","tag-heart","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-rich"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: No Longer on Speaking Terms with God | Funny Poems, Poems | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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