{"id":176682,"date":"2021-01-11T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=176682"},"modified":"2021-01-07T07:54:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T07:54:55","slug":"hope-and-desire-as-a-fifth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/01\/hope-and-desire-as-a-fifth\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope and Desire as a Fifth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By a rope<br \/>\nI am winded round<br \/>\nIt is invisible<br \/>\nYou cannot help me<\/p>\n<p>A knife is nearby me<br \/>\nThe hand does not stretch<br \/>\nThe bond is hard<br \/>\nTo cut down the rope<\/p>\n<p>As usual as you<br \/>\nFreedom and pleasure represent<br \/>\nI should play a role<br \/>\nIt is a punishment<\/p>\n<p>The world sits on the pain and suffering<br \/>\nI am an ant in it<br \/>\nI see, therefore I think and realize<br \/>\nComposition-four great elements<\/p>\n<p>Hope and desire as a fifth<br \/>\nI am deceived by the reflection<br \/>\nI know, therefore I suffer<br \/>\nI fight myself against the \u201cI\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As usual as you<br \/>\nIt seems free and happy<br \/>\nMy face is a great deceiver<br \/>\nOn the visible theatre<\/p>\n<p>The rope of viral<br \/>\nIn my mind winds round<br \/>\nI have begun to cut down<br \/>\nThe origin of desire and pain<\/p>\n<p><em>____________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Udaya-R.-Tennakoon.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-83463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Udaya-R.-Tennakoon.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Udaya R. Tennakoon \u2013 Lives in Switzerland. Poet\/ Diaspora Writer, Journalist, Dramatist, Peace, Human Rights and Political Activist. Master of Art in Peace and Conflict Transformation. More about the poet may follow this <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/udayar.wordpress.com\/\" >link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By a rope<br \/>\nI am winded round<br \/>\nIt is invisible<br \/>\nYou cannot help me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":83463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-176682","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\/176682","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=176682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}