{"id":272990,"date":"2024-09-09T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=272990"},"modified":"2024-09-04T04:15:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T03:15:35","slug":"beautiful-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/09\/beautiful-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh you beautiful tree
\nWith large green leaves
\nWith birds and squirrels
\nJumping and Hiding
\nHiding in your branches<\/p>\n

But they can\u2019t hide
\nWe know they are there
\nEspecially the squirrels
\nWith large tails
\nAs big as their bodies<\/p>\n

Oh you large tree
\nWithout a name
\n\u2018Who says I am nameless?
\nI have a nice name\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Oh good, what is your name?\u2019
\n\u2018My name is Neem, beautiful Neem\u2019
\nIs Neem a name or name is Neem?
\nTake it as you like it
\nBut people call me Neem
\nAnd they eat my leaves<\/p>\n

Why do they eat your leaves?
\nThey are not sweet, but bitter
\n\u2018The more bitter they are
\nThe better they like them
\nAnd so they like me\u2019<\/p>\n

Why, this word bitterness is needed
\nIf everything is sweet and nice
\nThis world would not exist
\nLike tall and short
\nSlow and fast
\nAdult and child
\nMan and woman<\/p>\n

We need opposites
\nAnd make the world
\nNot just Dull and Faded
\nBut lively and interesting
\nFor children and adults<\/p>\n

So a tree with bitter leaves is needed<\/p>\n

______________________________________________<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dr Ravi P Bhatia is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a>, an<\/em> educationist, Gandhian scholar and peace researcher. Retired professor, Delhi University. His new book, <\/em>A Garland of Ideas\u2014Gandhian, Religious, Educational, Environmental was published recently in Delhi.<\/em> ravipbhatia@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh you beautiful tree
\nWith large green leaves
\nWith birds and squirrels…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":108039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-272990","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\/272990","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=272990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272991,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272990\/revisions\/272991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}