{"id":33091,"date":"2013-09-02T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=33091"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:59:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:59:09","slug":"lets-try-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/09\/lets-try-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Try Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back then<br \/>\nI was a young and sheltered American,<br \/>\nbut I remember the newsreels:<br \/>\nRefugees on broken roads<br \/>\ntrod east, or was it west?<br \/>\nHow many of them<br \/>\ngot to a safe place?<br \/>\nThe nuclear menace<br \/>\nis not like a Stuka-\u2014<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t bomb and strafe<br \/>\nand then disappear<br \/>\ninto an April cloud.<br \/>\nNo baby carriages<br \/>\nare overturned,<br \/>\nno car radiators<br \/>\nare riddled with holes,<br \/>\nno one is dying<br \/>\nin a muddy ditch.<br \/>\nSince Hiroshima<br \/>\nroads are wider,<br \/>\ncars are faster,<br \/>\nbut our modern freeways<br \/>\nbecome more crowded,<br \/>\nlike our minds.<br \/>\nWe refugees<br \/>\nescape neither east nor west<br \/>\nand April clouds do not hide<br \/>\nwhat we know.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m told that<br \/>\ndespair alone<br \/>\ndoes not empower.<br \/>\nBefore the radioactive dust<br \/>\nstuffs us up,<br \/>\nlet&#8217;s try singing<br \/>\na loud, inspirational song<br \/>\nwith\u00a0 quavering voices.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s try acting,<br \/>\nif it hasn&#8217;t been too long,<br \/>\nas if we had choices.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s try<br \/>\neverything.<br \/>\n_______________________<\/p>\n<p><em><b>Tom Greening:<\/b> \u201cI engage in five professional activities:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Faculty Member at Saybrook University<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Private Practice of Psychotherapy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Clinical Professor of Psychology, UCLA<\/em><br \/>\n<em>International Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Writing (Poetry).\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomgreening.com\" >www.tomgreening.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back then<br \/>\nI was a young and sheltered American,<br \/>\nbut I remember the newsreels:<br \/>\nRefugees on broken roads<br \/>\ntrod east, or was it west?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}