{"id":340,"date":"2009-05-09T09:04:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T09:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2009\/05\/a-poem-for-the-weekend.html"},"modified":"2009-05-09T09:04:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T09:04:20","slug":"a-poem-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2009\/05\/a-poem-for-the-weekend.html","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I Took It as a Sign&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Someone sent a band to my house,<br \/>And it started playing<br \/>At <span style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;cursor: pointer\" class=\"yshortcuts\">five in the morning<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I took this as a sign<br \/>God wanted me to sing!<\/p>\n<p>Then the moon joined in<br \/>And a few of the tenor-voiced stars,<\/p>\n<p>And the earth offered its lovely belly<br \/>As a drum.<\/p>\n<p>Before I knew it,<br \/>I realized<br \/>All <span class=\"yshortcuts\">human beings<\/span> could be happy.<\/p>\n<p>If only they had a <br \/>maestro like Hafez.<\/p>\n<p>A setting of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hafez\">Hafez<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Ladinsky\">Daniel Ladinsky<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I Took It as a Sign&#8221; Someone sent a band to my house,And it started playingAt five in the morning. 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