{"id":236885,"date":"2023-06-12T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=236885"},"modified":"2023-06-05T06:08:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T05:08:32","slug":"sights-and-sounds-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/06\/sights-and-sounds-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"Sights and Sounds Galore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See the background \u2014 hills, mountains, rivers, gardens, forests<br \/>\nAll standing, full of colours, sounds, along paths with twists<br \/>\nLook at the views of these and other interesting sights galore<br \/>\nWhen you feel you have seen all, look again and find many more<\/p>\n<p>How\u2019s that? Did you miss some or you felt you saw them\u00a0\u00a0before<br \/>\nHow far are these from you,\u00a0\u00a0are you sure there are no more<br \/>\nRaise your voice, shout loudest, get an echo after some moments<br \/>\nRecede further no echo, shout loudly again till your throat torments<\/p>\n<p>What happened? Who or what gobbled the echo<br \/>\nOh, there are some falcon birds that fly high<br \/>\nDid they absorb your voice or its echo \u2014 what a pity<br \/>\nLight travels faster than sound, the view looks pretty<\/p>\n<p>Forget about voices and echoes \u2014 see the colours around<br \/>\nYes pretty colours and their hues can be seen abound<br \/>\nYou can\u2019t miss the sights, you won\u2019t miss their colours<br \/>\nSplashing themselves to look beautiful, forget the horrors<\/p>\n<p>They were there when no one was around<br \/>\nHow sensible of them to hold their ground<br \/>\nLet us leave them today as they are<br \/>\nCome again tomorrow and see colours galore<\/p>\n<p>Nature is what it is \u2014 it teaches you patience<br \/>\nIt rewards you with colours and beauty immense<br \/>\nGood bye for now, no ifs, no sorrow<br \/>\nWill surely come here again tomorrow<\/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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a><em>, 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> <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/TRANSCEND\/T%20M%20S\/TO%20POST\/Members\/ravipbhatia@gmail.com\"><em>ravipbhatia@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the background \u2014 hills, mountains, rivers, gardens, forests<br \/>\nAll standing, full of colours, sounds, along paths with twists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[401,868],"class_list":["post-236885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-environment","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236885","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=236885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236890,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236885\/revisions\/236890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}