{"id":1765,"date":"2013-07-24T19:05:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T03:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2013-07-24T20:50:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T04:50:53","slug":"ben-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=1765","title":{"rendered":"Ben Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I met Ben Holiday through the wonderful\u00a0Red Badge Project<\/a> at Joint Base Lewis McChord.\u00a0I’m happy to have the chance to post one of his poems.–KF<\/p>\n

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The Gray Man<\/p>\n

There are many colors that we are,
\nand many colors that weve seen.
\nThe most common of these colors,
\nare red, blue and green.<\/p>\n

Red is for the anger,
\nthe fury and all the rage<\/p>\n

Blue is for the lost ones,
\nand for the worst of our days.<\/p>\n

Green is for envy and jealousy
\nand like a tree it grows,<\/p>\n

But there is one color,
\nfew have ever seen,
\nor will ever know.
\nThe one color that is gray,
\nthe one that never shows.<\/p>\n

Amongst all the other colors he stays,
\nsilent like a ghost
\nfor its these other colors
\nthat keep him hidden
\nin this mist,
\nand fog
\nand smoke.<\/p>\n

The Gray Man is everywhere,
\neven though most dont know,
\nthis man that is invisible
\nwhose identitiy never shows
\nhe sits and waits patiently
\nfor what he knows will come to be.
\nThe actions and the tactics,
\nof all his foes and enemies
\nthat the oblivious
\nand the ignorant
\nand the blind just cant see.<\/p>\n

But dont think that The Gray Man
\nhasn’t seen any other colors in his life,
\nthats the reason he became gray
\nbecause thats the color that survives.
\nSurviving all of the trials,
\nall of his enemies schemes and plans
\nand this survival tactic
\nis called being The Gray Man.<\/p>\n

There are many colors that we are,
\nand many colors that weve seen.
\nMost other colors out there fight dirty,
\nbut they dont know
\nthat one color is aware
\nof the scam, and their whole plan,
\nthe one color that isnt “there”
\nthe one they call …….
\nThe Gray Man<\/p>\n

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His name is Ben Holiday, some call him Buzz. He is from Spokane Wa. He is ex military and always thinks twice about what he says….The majority of the time he is quiet, he believes it’s far better to listen than it is to speak. He first started writing poetry while injured in an overseas hospital. He doesn’t speak about about what or who he is, instead he’ll use poetry….Poetry is his only voice. Through writing he gained a freedom of perception, which became his salvation….”In his opinion”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I met Ben Holiday through the wonderful\u00a0Red Badge Project at Joint Base Lewis McChord.\u00a0I’m happy to have the chance to post one of his poems.–KF   The Gray Man There are many colors that we are, and many colors that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[199,505,8,1],"tags":[590,591],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}