{"id":86034,"date":"2017-01-30T12:01:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=86034"},"modified":"2018-12-20T09:54:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T09:54:15","slug":"the-beggar-of-assisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/01\/the-beggar-of-assisi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beggar of Assisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His life was a prayer, a candle, a song.<br \/>\nBarefoot, he trod through showers and sunshine.<br \/>\nBirds alighting on his shoulders wondered:<br \/>\nWhat manner of man, gentle as a sapling?<\/p>\n<p>It hardly seemed possible\u2014upholding<br \/>\nThe world, he had totally surrendered<br \/>\nWorldly goods, ambition, everything fine<br \/>\nMen and women cherish.\u00a0 Did he belong<\/p>\n<p>To us, or was he another species<br \/>\nIn a form like ours; but made out of light?<br \/>\nLightly, he called brother sun, sister moon,<br \/>\nAnd they shone down intoxicating love:<\/p>\n<p>It purled itself in a brook, rose above<br \/>\nOn a hawk\u2019s wing, trilled itself in the tune<br \/>\nThe boys sang harvesting; and in the night<br \/>\nIt whispered, \u201cBlessed is\u2026oh, blessed is\u2026.\u201d<br \/>\n______________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gary-corseri.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-84067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gary-corseri-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>Dr. Gary Steven Corseri is a m<\/em><em>ember of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment.<\/a> He<\/em><em> has published and posted articles, fiction and poems at hundreds of venues, including,<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/search\/?q=gary+corseri\" >TMS (Transcend Media Service<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/\" >)<\/a>, The New York Times, Village Voice, Redbook Magazine <em>and<\/em> Counterpunch.\u00a0 <em>He has published 2 novels and 2 collections of poetry, and his dramas have been produced on<\/em> PBS-Atlanta <em>and elsewhere.\u00a0 He has performed his poems at the Carter Presidential Library and Museum and has taught in universities in the US and Japan, and in US public schools and prisons.\u00a0 Contact: <a href=\"mailto:Gary_Corseri@comcast.net\">Gary_Corseri@comcast.net<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His life was a prayer, a candle, a song.<br \/>\nBarefoot, he trod through showers and sunshine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86034","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=86034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}