{"id":187707,"date":"2021-06-28T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=187707"},"modified":"2021-06-26T05:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T04:34:11","slug":"the-basket-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/06\/the-basket-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basket of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/The-Basket-of-Light-usha.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-187713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/The-Basket-of-Light-usha-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/The-Basket-of-Light-usha-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/The-Basket-of-Light-usha-832x1024.jpg 832w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/The-Basket-of-Light-usha-768x945.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/The-Basket-of-Light-usha.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She walks with a basket on her head<br \/>\nSmiling,\u00a0but her basket\u00a0is empty,\u00a0although she\u00a0carries the king of thermal energy<br \/>\nLuminating\u00a0galactic, she does\u00a0not\u00a0realise this dispensary of\u00a0light<br \/>\nO! if only she knows, he shines heavenly so bright!<br \/>\nHe rises with such celestial might.<br \/>\nYet nobody gets a fright.<\/p>\n<p>Its early in the morning.<br \/>\nEclipsed in the\u00a0basket, saffron yellow,\u00a0spherical, blazing\u00a0and scorching.<br \/>\nYet she smiles, as she carries her god\u00a0in her heart\u00a0the pain is roaring<br \/>\npoverty is her\u00a0mourning;\u00a0she wishes the light could be transforming.<br \/>\nBut she walks step by step, hand in hand with her son,<br \/>\nHe is unaware of the magma ball captured in her basket, only that the hunger pangs have begun.<br \/>\nYes, its powerful, giving earth life, dancing, following him but it\u2019s no fun!<br \/>\nCan someone capture this image?<br \/>\nWe are slowly pacing to our village.<br \/>\nDry\u00a0and dusty, he shines through, the light no one can plunder or pillage<br \/>\nO piercing, o star, give us\u00a0strength,\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0walking in\u00a0the heat, it is no\u00a0privilege<br \/>\nNothing can compare to the image,<br \/>\nmother\u00a0caring\u00a0the sun some may think is sacrilege!<br \/>\nSo burn away, dear sun,\u00a0someone has captured the image<br \/>\n_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-186568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Dr Usha Roopnarain \u2013 Former parliamentarian in the National Assembly of South Africa, social activist and passionate about human rights and gender equality.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She walks with a basket on her head<br \/>\nSmiling,\u00a0but her basket\u00a0is empty,\u00a0although she\u00a0carries the king of thermal energy<br \/>\nLuminating\u00a0galactic, she does\u00a0not\u00a0realise this dispensary of\u00a0light<br \/>\nO! if only she knows, he shines heavenly so bright!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":186568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-187707","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\/187707","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=187707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}