{"id":1119,"date":"2010-08-15T00:06:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T00:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2014-11-22T01:58:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T01:58:39","slug":"spirit-of-peltier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/spirit-of-peltier\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of Peltier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R6Gwjoht6f8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Caged like a bird but flexing his wings<br \/>\nFor a spirit can never be caged<br \/>\nThough he walks slower with advancing years<br \/>\nHis spirit has never aged<\/p>\n<p>And his voice reaches the whole wide world<br \/>\nWho the rights of man hold dear<br \/>\nBut his voice, like a thunderclap will never be heard<br \/>\nBy those who listen but refuse to hear.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a next life, and the White Mans God<br \/>\nIs known as vengeful to those who do wrong<br \/>\nEspecially done by those deeds in His name<br \/>\nTo help their manifest destiny along<\/p>\n<p>And maybe a land of Redmen may be<br \/>\nShared with angels and God up above<br \/>\nAnd Leonard Peltier there will be free<br \/>\nThe whiteman will&#8217;ve Hell as the Empire he does so love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Spirit of Peltier beats in the hearts of all who love freedom<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/tom%C3%A1s-%C3%B3-c%C3%A1rthaigh-and-roibeard-mc-elroy-and-anthony-sullivan\/spirit-of-peltier\/paperback\/product-10917894.html\">The book of the same name is on Lulu&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caged like a bird but flexing his wings For a spirit can never be caged Though he walks slower with advancing years His spirit has never aged And his voice reaches the whole wide world Who the rights of man hold dear But his voice, like a thunderclap will never &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[1264,1265,1262,746,1263],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-poetry","tag-freedom","tag-lakota","tag-leonard-peltier","tag-native-american","tag-proisoner","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-i3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3494,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/to-follow-an-eagle-in-flight\/","url_meta":{"origin":1119,"position":0},"title":"To Follow An Eagle in Flight &#8211; the Flight of Peltier","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"21st January 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q3g7limv10s In flight they free their captors Who are in hot pursuit Who seek only vengeance And do not care for the truth Above them appeared an eagle Sitting in a tree Some whose faith were strong declared A manifestation of Tunkashila - The Great Mystery And decreed to follow\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Native American Tales&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Native American Tales","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/native-american-tales\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/q3g7limv10s\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1873,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-first-sign\/","url_meta":{"origin":1119,"position":1},"title":"The First Sign (The Hopi Native American Prophecies)","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"13th June 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EL1nMIqJgH0 The first sign of the changing of the fourth to the fifth world according to Hopi legend is explored in this poem, which is the first of a series of poems exploring the signs both past and to come. 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