{"id":4502,"date":"2018-02-08T13:58:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2023-02-22T15:50:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T19:50:16","slug":"i-am-and-the-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/i-am-and-the-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am and the Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>I Am<\/strong><br><em>by&nbsp;Marguerite (2nd grade)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am the flower below your feet above the grass.<br>I am the cloud in the sky over the sun.<br>I am the pencil in your hand writing.<br>I am the pie in the window of the bakery.<br>I am the star that shines in the sky<br>and watches you go to sleep every night.<br>I can see, I can feel<br>all with just my mind.<br>I am the laughter in you.<br>I am the hope in you.<br>I am the love in you.<\/p>\n<cite>2017<br><em><strong>Wonderlicious<\/strong><\/em><br>51M, Manhattan, NY<br><em>Matthew Burgess,<\/em>\u00a0<em>\u00a0writer\u2010in\u2010residence<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>I Wish A World Upon A Star<\/strong><br><em>by Chamari (4th grade)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish a world upon a star,<br>Where there will be no homeless people.<br>People will no longer starve.<br>All people will care for one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I dream a world with my wish.<br>I wish the elderly will be treated as gently as a newborn baby.<br>Love would be spread from soul to soul,<br>And all the world would be blessed with kindness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I dream a world where every night as I slumber<br>People would be as sweet as birds,<br>Donating would become a hobby,<br>And tears of joy would be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I dream a world where joy would be treasured.<br>It would be worth more than a nugget of gold.<br>Everybody would be treated equally.<br>Of such a world, I dream.<\/p>\n<cite>2017<br><em><strong>Wonderlicious<\/strong><\/em><br>51M, Manhattan, NY<br><em>Matthew Burgess,<\/em>\u00a0<em>\u00a0writer\u2010in\u2010residence<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Marguerite &#038; Chamari<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":4503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","featured_image_focal_point":[],"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"1621,8581,3589,1278,834,960","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12037,"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions\/12037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}