{"id":164161,"date":"2020-07-13T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=164161"},"modified":"2020-07-05T09:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T08:21:49","slug":"poems-pandemics-and-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/07\/poems-pandemics-and-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems, Pandemics, and Preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>3 Jul 2020 &#8211; <\/em>With the help of a friend I taught myself to write poems in a haiku form following classic Japanese guidance. Poetry has long been a place of sanctuary for me, and in recent months it has also offered me the pleasures of \u2018lockdown therapy.\u2019 I hope I am not abusing readers by posting a sample, and hoping others will be drawn to join an invisible community of haiku lovers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***********************<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lonely despair wilts<br \/>\nColorful blooming flowers<br \/>\nCan\u2019t hide fragrance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Joy is a heart wave<br \/>\nComplacency vanishes<br \/>\nBlue replaces gray<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">black while jogging<br \/>\nAhmaud Arbery<br \/>\nThen dead like King<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By choice blue birds fly<br \/>\nAbove the prisoners below<br \/>\nSinging their freedom songs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Enough of dreaming<br \/>\nThe scent of this rose is real<br \/>\nHolding the stem I bleed<\/p>\n<p><em>__________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RichardFalk.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-145696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RichardFalk-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Richard Falk is a member of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><strong>TRANSCEND Network<\/strong><\/a>, an international relations scholar, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University,\u00a0Distinguished Research Fellow, Orfalea Center of Global Studies,\u00a0UCSB,\u00a0author, co-author or editor of 60 books, and a speaker and activist on world affairs.\u00a0In 2008, the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council\" ><strong>United Nations Human Rights Council<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(UNHRC) appointed Falk to two three-year terms as a\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Special_Rapporteur\" ><strong>United Nations Special Rapporteur <\/strong><\/a>on \u201cthe situation of human rights in the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palestinian_territories\" ><strong>Palestinian territories<\/strong><\/a> occupied since 1967.\u201d Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and associated with the local campus of the University of California, and for several years chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. His most recent book is\u00a0<\/em>On Nuclear Weapons, Denuclearization, Demilitarization, and Disarmament\u00a0<em>(2019). <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/richardfalk.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/03\/poems-pandemics-and-preservation\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 richardfalk.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Jul 2020 &#8211; With the help of a friend I taught myself to write poems in a haiku form following classic Japanese guidance. Poetry has long been a place of sanctuary for me, and in recent months it has also offered me the pleasures of \u2018lockdown therapy.\u2019 I hope I am not abusing readers by posting a sample, and hoping others will be drawn to join an invisible community of haiku lovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-164161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164161","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=164161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}