{"id":3777,"date":"2026-02-25T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2026-01-02T14:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:17:58","slug":"when-by-sheila-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2026\/02\/25\/when-by-sheila-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;When&#8221; by Sheila Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><br>When flags relax at half-mast, will we be ready with them to rise?<br>When the sparks of insolence weed gardens of themselves, will we create a new shared home?<br>When homonyms parse themselves out of likeness, will there be new bones?<br>When there is only weather for the birds and bodies of the forgotten, will we seed light?<br>When the space between quiet and intonation fills with thought will there still be voice?<br>When children invent new clouds will we allow our hands to inhabit a different dance?<br>When imagined wise teachers emerge will we recognize their faces?<br>When we decide the earth is ours and equally not our own will we find new places to roam?<br>When skin tones accept the moon as kin to sun will we find golden nests?<br>When we learn to have been separate will we clasp shared history to share?<br>When we finish practicing cadenzas will we codify magnetic earth?<br>When we perform the baseline will our hearing faculty reprise foundations of first birds?<br>When we decide to retrieve our childhood will we locate matching softness?<br>When breath leaves wind behind will leaves still be trembling?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><br><em>Sheila Murphy has been writing for a good deal of time and lives her poetry. She walks prolifically, just as she writes. She writes, &#8220;I will spare you the biographical details and emphasize that I&#8217;m a kind of jet propulsion engine filled with joie de vivre! :)&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When flags relax at half-mast, will we be ready with them to rise?When the sparks of insolence weed gardens of themselves, will we create a new shared home?When homonyms parse themselves out of likeness, will there be new bones?When there is only weather for the birds and bodies of the forgotten, will we seed light?When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2026\/02\/25\/when-by-sheila-murphy\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-YV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3778,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}