{"id":30,"date":"2019-02-15T14:13:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T19:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arabic\/?p=30"},"modified":"2020-03-23T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T17:32:20","slug":"30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arabic\/2019\/02\/15\/30\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindness &#8211; a Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kindness<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0Naomi Shihab Nye (1985)<\/p>\n<p>Before you know what kindness really is<br \/>\nyou must lose things,<br \/>\nfeel the future dissolve in a moment<br \/>\nlike salt in a weakened broth.<br \/>\nWhat you held in your hand,<br \/>\nwhat you counted and carefully saved,<br \/>\nall this must go so you know<br \/>\nhow desolate the landscape can be<br \/>\nbetween the regions of kindness.<br \/>\nHow you ride and ride<br \/>\nthinking the bus will never stop,<br \/>\nthe passengers eating maize and chicken<br \/>\nwill stare out the window forever.<br \/>\nBefore you learn the tender gravity of kindness<br \/>\nyou must travel where the Indian in a white poncho<br \/>\nlies dead by the side of the road.<br \/>\nYou must see how this could be you,<br \/>\nhow he too was someone<br \/>\nwho journeyed through the night with plans<br \/>\nand the simple breath that kept him alive.<br \/>\nBefore you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,<br \/>\nyou must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.<br \/>\nYou must wake up with sorrow.<br \/>\nYou must speak to it till your voice<br \/>\ncatches the thread of all sorrows<br \/>\nand you see the size of the cloth.<br \/>\nThen it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,<br \/>\nonly kindness that ties your shoes<br \/>\nand sends you out into the day to gaze at bread,<br \/>\nonly kindness that raises its head<br \/>\nfrom the crowd of the world to say<br \/>\nIt is I you have been looking for,<br \/>\nand then goes with you everywhere<br \/>\nlike a shadow or a friend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Credit:<br \/>\nFrom Words Under the Words: Selected Poems. Copyright \u00a9 1995 by Naomi Shihab Nye.<br \/>\nReprinted with the permission of the author.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image accessed from this link: https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/350436414726718482\/?lp=true\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindness By\u00a0Naomi Shihab Nye (1985) Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86481],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-activities","first-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}