{"id":27262,"date":"2013-04-01T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=27262"},"modified":"2013-03-29T20:51:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T20:51:30","slug":"the-new-kalladi-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/04\/the-new-kalladi-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Kalladi Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><i>(In post war in Sri Lanka, connecting the North and South of Batticaloa road, the bridge was constructed to replace the old Kalladi Bridge that was built by the British 70 years ago.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In sounds of heavy weapons<br \/>\nAnd shot notices vibrated<br \/>\nGods and Brahmas<br \/>\nGradually praised<br \/>\nHeart of the Kalladi Bridge broken<br \/>\nRe- built bridge is too ling<\/p>\n<p>Lumpish fishes<br \/>\nIn fear of shot noises<br \/>\nThen they died my buddies<br \/>\nRivers and lagoons<br \/>\nOverflowed with bloodies<br \/>\nThe bridge built whereby,<br \/>\nFishes without buddies<\/p>\n<p>Narrow road widens,<br \/>\nWhile the hearts being parochial<br \/>\nSerpents compete,<br \/>\nWhile the human beings vanished<br \/>\nThough it could to join,<br \/>\nHaving built a bridge<br \/>\nLost the tune<br \/>\nIn a broken and cataclysmic heart of song<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">______________________________<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Udaya R. Tennakoon \u2013 Poet\/ Diaspora Writer, Peace and Human Rights Activist. Student at the World Peace Academy, University of Basel, Switzerland.<\/em><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In sounds of heavy weapons<br \/>\nAnd shot notices vibrated<br \/>\nGods and Brahmas<br \/>\nGradually praised &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27262","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=27262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}