{"id":110063,"date":"2018-04-30T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=110063"},"modified":"2018-04-29T10:10:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T09:10:03","slug":"an-island-called-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/04\/an-island-called-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"An Island Called Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live an island called \u201crespect\u201d.<br \/>\nLiving there allows me to see<br \/>\nHumanity in you;<br \/>\nLiving there allows me to see,<br \/>\nThrough you, humanity in me\u2026<br \/>\nLiving there for us to see,<br \/>\nTogether in humanity,<br \/>\nThank you!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes,<br \/>\nI swim to distant shores,<br \/>\nAs far as I know the seas,<br \/>\nI swim an ocean of care,<br \/>\nAs I delight and bathe<br \/>\nIn the love born<br \/>\nFrom such a happy fare.<\/p>\n<p>To my nakedness,<br \/>\nI add politeness.<br \/>\nIf we are made of words,<br \/>\n&#8211; Though not only &#8211;<br \/>\nIf I stop swimming<br \/>\nThe oceans of feeling,<br \/>\nIndeed, I do drown.<br \/>\nIf we are made,<br \/>\nSome of words,<br \/>\nThen it is grace,<br \/>\nThe politeness<br \/>\nOf our shared worlds.<\/p>\n<p>As I reach a distant shore,<br \/>\nThrough your eyes I can see:<br \/>\nBe it beach or cliff ?<br \/>\nI do welcome your welcome,<br \/>\nThough, I can climb both!<\/p>\n<p>Were we stay and what we do,<br \/>\nYet hidden song of living love,<br \/>\nUniversal, we may do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As I fly away<br \/>\nReturning home,<br \/>\nIt is your smile,<br \/>\nEver present as may be,<br \/>\nThat carries by me,<br \/>\nThe happy memory,<br \/>\nOf present shores.<\/p>\n<p>If so may be,<br \/>\nThat neither eye, word nor touch<br \/>\nMay reach our peace,<br \/>\nFrom you to me, me to you,<br \/>\nMay we still swim or go,<br \/>\nTogether I prefer,<br \/>\nTo an island called \u201crespect\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 \u00c9ditions Pour de Vrai, 1659 Flendruz, Switzerland, 17 <\/em><em>Sep<\/em><em> 2013. Enhanced and translated to French, 27 Apr 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Christophe-Barbey-e1512565267989.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-103152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Christophe-Barbey-e1512565267989.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><em>Christophe Barbey, Irenist\u00a0(peace\u00a0activator, theory and practices of peace and peace science), poet\u00a0(smile\u00a0cultivator) and\u00a0lawyer (prevention and solutions) is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a><em>. He lives in the Swiss Alps and works sometimes in Geneva. Main representative at the United Nations in Geneva for the\u00a0<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nonkilling.org\/\" ><em>Center for Global Nonkilling<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0and for\u00a0<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpti.ws\/\" ><em>Conscience and Peace Tax International<\/em><\/a><em>. Expertise on the place of peace in constitutions and the human right to peace, on countries without armies.<\/em> <em>More of his poetry is available <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/poesiepourdevrai.blogspot.ch\/\"  data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/poesiepourdevrai.blogspot.ch\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1525077726678000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5qBx69UcKpFImfDmVQosqSpuIPg\">here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live an island called \u201crespect\u201d.<br \/>\nLiving there allows me to see<br \/>\nHumanity in you;<br \/>\nLiving there allows me to see, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":103152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}