{"id":28586,"date":"2013-05-13T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=28586"},"modified":"2015-05-06T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T11:53:07","slug":"the-moon-cries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/05\/the-moon-cries\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moon Cries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the backyard of the earth<br \/>\nThe solitary moon was sitting<br \/>\nIn the dark with a hidden secret<br \/>\nThe moon cries before it puts on<\/p>\n<p>Wiping out tears get touched on the cheeks<br \/>\nWalks in the sky having tired with bored mood<br \/>\nClouds cover and stars divert<br \/>\nSlept night is blind for hidden reality<\/p>\n<p>No one feels and knows<br \/>\nBeauty doesn\u2019t tell anything<br \/>\nLamenting heart is a flame in the lamp<br \/>\nGlass of light is a wall of the chimney<br \/>\nOutside world has a dream in the night<\/p>\n<p>The day time at the dark<br \/>\nThe moon sees the light<br \/>\nBeings are on earth<br \/>\nWrapped up in an animosity<\/p>\n<p>Faces laugh and inside sword snares<br \/>\nCollected values are used for blast<br \/>\nA red line ribbon of river intercrosses<br \/>\nOn the dead bodies of harmful battles<\/p>\n<p>Creatures sink in light of the dark<br \/>\nThe moon suffers in the dark of the light<br \/>\nWaves of the seas haunt for a width<br \/>\nThe warm of the earth is the hate of the man.<br \/>\n_____________________________<\/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 the backyard of the earth<br \/>\nThe solitary moon was sitting<br \/>\nIn the dark with a hidden secret . . .<\/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-28586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28586","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=28586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}