{"id":207529,"date":"2022-05-02T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=207529"},"modified":"2022-03-21T05:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T05:31:10","slug":"laugh-away-small-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/05\/laugh-away-small-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Laugh Away \u2014 Small Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Row row row your boat<br \/>\nGently down the stream<br \/>\nKeep rowing till your arms ache<br \/>\nNeed rest and become green<\/p>\n<p>Eat, eat, eat till you are full<br \/>\nDon\u2019t overeat &#8211; that can be fatal<br \/>\nYour heart, stomach can\u2019t complain<br \/>\nBetter remain on a healthy lane<\/p>\n<p>Look, look, look at the leaves<br \/>\nAs they fall gently from the trees<br \/>\nSome are yellow, some still green<br \/>\nUnaware of colours that leave the branches<\/p>\n<p>Leaves falling some even from the nests<br \/>\nHome to sparrows that they carefully built<br \/>\nTaking care of the eggs yet to split<br \/>\nThen feeding sparroettes with mothers\u2019 beaks<\/p>\n<p>Laugh laugh laugh till you cry<br \/>\nLaugh away your blues<br \/>\nSing, sing sing and dance<br \/>\nWhile you are on the cruise<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ravi-P.-Bhatia-150x150-1-e1596524021103.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-166069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ravi-P.-Bhatia-150x150-1-e1596524021103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a> Dr Ravi P Bhatia is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, an<\/em> <em>educationist, Gandhian scholar and peace researcher. Retired professor, Delhi University. His new book, <\/em>A Garland of Ideas\u2014Gandhian, Religious, Educational, Environmental <em>was published recently in Delhi.<\/em> <em><a href=\"ravipbhatia@gmail.com\">ravipbhatia@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Row row row your boat<br \/>\nGently down the stream<br \/>\nKeep rowing till your arms ache<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":166069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-207529","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\/207529","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=207529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}