{"id":259606,"date":"2024-04-22T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=259606"},"modified":"2024-04-13T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T05:00:45","slug":"poem-for-stillness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/poem-for-stillness\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem for Stillness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>2020 &#8211; <em>Amidst the bullets and the tanks sits the powerful desire for peace and love.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He stirs his tea with a gun barrel<br \/>\nHe solves the puzzle with a gun barrel<br \/>\nHe scratches his thoughts with a gun barrel<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes<br \/>\nhe sits facing himself<br \/>\nand pulls bullet-memories<br \/>\nout of his brain<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s fought in many wars<br \/>\nbut is no match for his own despair<\/p>\n<p>These white pills<br \/>\nhave left him so colourless<br \/>\nhis shadow must stand up<br \/>\nto fetch him water<\/p>\n<p>We ought to accept<br \/>\nthat no soldier<br \/>\nhas ever returned<br \/>\nfrom war<br \/>\nalive<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Farsi poetry from Garous Abdolmalekian (b. 1980)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 &#8211; Amidst the bullets and the tanks sits the powerful desire for peace and love.<\/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":[2009,3267,2553,119,868],"class_list":["post-259606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-anti-war","tag-farsi","tag-love","tag-peace","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259606","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=259606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259607,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259606\/revisions\/259607"}],"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=259606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}