{"id":1632,"date":"2011-12-21T19:05:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T02:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2012-05-24T23:45:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T06:45:09","slug":"and-a-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/and-a-leaf","title":{"rendered":"And A Leaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Read in order: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/like-ivy\">Ivy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/a-butterfly\">A Butterfly<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/a-flower\">A Flower<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/and-a-leaf\">And A Leaf<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Find her<br \/>\nIn the shade of a tree<br \/>\nShe let go of home to wander<br \/>\nAll the greater anxieties.<br \/>\nHer face is old, color of gold,<br \/>\nShe dances silently<br \/>\nTo the turning of a breeze&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mind her<br \/>\nNomad of earth and sky<br \/>\nYou can dream for her<br \/>\nTo the melody she breathes.<br \/>\nQuietly, she is free<br \/>\nNeedlessly at ease with ambition and cause<br \/>\nShe has traveled long<br \/>\nTo remind us of the sound of songs!<\/p>\n<p>Hear her<br \/>\nKeeper of another peace<br \/>\nHer power is in movements<br \/>\nAs numbers that gather silently.<br \/>\nThey move, they reach, they change what&#8217;s seen!<br \/>\nDoers, in no need of grand spectacle,<br \/>\nUnkept promises, or speech.<br \/>\nNumbers that be, come as quietly as they leave<br \/>\nNo one can question the voices of the truly free.<\/p>\n<p>Be her<br \/>\nShe is old, but not worn<br \/>\nCrushed, but not torn-<br \/>\nBetween world&#8217;s, or double standards.<br \/>\nHypocrites can&#8217;t shatter-<br \/>\nHer being&#8230; Here, she is only in passing<br \/>\nTime and again, no great man&#8217;s captive, nor means<br \/>\nNo man&#8217;s property, or sample of virtue!<br \/>\nA great spirit for her, both wise and meek!<br \/>\nA great spirit learns, greater spirits can&#8217;t be owned.<br \/>\nThe greater are free to remind us of what we don&#8217;t see<br \/>\nThey remind unfeeling hearts to feel,<br \/>\nAnd command the unspeakable to finally heal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>See her<br \/>\nIn that quiet admiration of a moment&#8230;<br \/>\nTwisting to those psalms of a fallen omen,<br \/>\nAnd missing the qualms of all the world&#8217;s solemn.<br \/>\nHer likeness resides in each of us<br \/>\nA mark of untamed desire to be more than thus.<br \/>\nChange everlasting.<br \/>\nSo, see her&#8230;<br \/>\nIn a breeze ever so passing,<br \/>\nWanders the fallen leaf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Read in order: Ivy, A Butterfly, A Flower, And A Leaf) Find her In the shade of a tree She let go of home to wander All the greater anxieties. Her face is old, color of gold, She dances silently To the turning of a breeze&#8230; Mind her Nomad of earth and sky You can dream for her To the melody she breathes. Quietly, she is free Needlessly at ease with ambition and cause She has traveled long To remind us of the sound of songs! 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