{"id":31301,"date":"2013-07-01T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=31301"},"modified":"2015-05-06T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T08:00:12","slug":"iron-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/07\/iron-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For the residents of London Hounslow who live under constant pollution of Heathrow flight path.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>iron wings fly above Hounslow<br \/>\ncarrying planes carrying people,<br \/>\nripping-air is their enemy<br \/>\nripping air is their pride<br \/>\nthey illustriously exhale<br \/>\nsilver clouds,<br \/>\nround sky-bus bellies<br \/>\nsmile at rusty tiled roofs,<br \/>\ncloud paths travelled<br \/>\nlost swiftly and gently.<\/p>\n<p>our air has no map<br \/>\nno borders no voice,<br \/>\nit is ripped and fatigued<br \/>\nour sights untrained<br \/>\nto watch it decline<br \/>\nit is settling in silence<br \/>\nof years and decades<br \/>\nas plane after plane<br \/>\ntax profit after profits<br \/>\ntrade after trade<br \/>\nroars above timber attic triangles<br \/>\nand foolish broad gardens,<br \/>\nits silence also ripped.<\/p>\n<p>we must become rich<br \/>\nand richer and richer,<br \/>\nwe need nickel coins and notes<br \/>\ngold bonds and jobs<br \/>\nto fill empty banks<br \/>\nmopped neat by suited bankers<br \/>\nbonus gulpers and deceitful loan sellers,<br \/>\nthey sold rubbish not money<br \/>\nmoney just flew away<br \/>\nlike a plane&#8217;s cloud paths lost<br \/>\nin air ripped by iron wings.<\/p>\n<p>on streets of Hounslow<br \/>\nsummer leaves crisp bags<br \/>\nburger packs cigarette wrappers<br \/>\nfly,<br \/>\na plane just flew away,<br \/>\n90 seconds<br \/>\nbefore rubbish gets new iron wings.<br \/>\n______________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Sumeet Grover:<\/em><br \/>\n<em> &#8211; Member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and of the TRANSCEND Art &amp; Peace Network<\/em><br \/>\n<em> &#8211; Coordinator of Global Poetry<\/em><br \/>\n<em> &#8211; A software engineer originally from India, based in the UK.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the residents of London Hounslow who live under constant pollution of Heathrow flight path.<\/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-31301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31301","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=31301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}