{"id":227472,"date":"2023-01-30T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=227472"},"modified":"2023-01-16T05:05:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T05:05:40","slug":"let-this-darkness-be-a-bell-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/01\/let-this-darkness-be-a-bell-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quiet friend who has come so far,<\/p>\n

feel how your breathing makes more space around you.
\nLet this darkness be a bell tower
\nand you the bell. As you ring,<\/p>\n

what batters you becomes your strength.
\nMove back and forth into the change.
\nWhat is it like, such intensity of pain?
\nIf the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.<\/p>\n

In this uncontainable night,
\nbe the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,
\nthe meaning discovered there.<\/p>\n

And if the world has ceased to hear you,
\nsay to the silent earth: I flow.
\nTo the rushing water, speak: I am.<\/p>\n

____________________________________________________<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ren\u00e9 Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, shortened to Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet and novelist. He has been acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, and is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. <\/em>Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Timeless Invitation to Listening for the Light<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":227474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-227472","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\/227472","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=227472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}