{"id":1361,"date":"2009-11-13T11:51:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T11:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2009-11-13T11:51:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T11:51:45","slug":"poem-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/poem-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem:  Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today a poem by Kath Walker, aka Oodgeroo Noonuccal, (1920-1993), Australian poet and civil rights activist, and someone my grandmother knew.\u00a0 Ms Walker was the first person of Australian Aboriginal descent to publish a book of poetry.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Song<\/em><br \/>\nLife is ours in vain<br \/>\nLacking love, which never<br \/>\nCounts the loss or gain.<br \/>\nBut remember, ever<br \/>\nLove is linked with pain.<br \/>\nLight and sister shade<br \/>\nShape each mortal morrow<br \/>\nSeek not to evade<br \/>\nLove&#8217;s companion Sorrow,<br \/>\nAnd be not dismayed.<br \/>\nGrief is not in vain<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s for our completeness<br \/>\nIf the fates ordain<br \/>\nLove to bring life sweetness,<br \/>\nWelcome too its pain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Reference:<\/em><br \/>\nKath Walker [1966]:\u00a0 <em>The Dawn is at Hand: Poems<\/em>. This edition published 1992 in \u00a0New York NY USA, by Marion Boyars, page 110.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today a poem by Kath Walker, aka Oodgeroo Noonuccal, (1920-1993), Australian poet and civil rights activist, and someone my grandmother knew.\u00a0 Ms Walker was the first person of Australian Aboriginal descent to publish a book of poetry. Song Life is ours in vain Lacking love, which never Counts the loss or gain. But remember, ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","p1","y2009","m11","d13","h11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}