{"id":32707,"date":"2013-08-12T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=32707"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:59:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:59:58","slug":"looking-at-my-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/08\/looking-at-my-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at My Fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my room<br \/>\nI saw my fingers<br \/>\nThat I have never thought of<br \/>\nIt were all together<br \/>\nBut it were different to each others<br \/>\nI looked at and<br \/>\nMy other hand burnished each one<br \/>\nI checked one by one<br \/>\nI wanted to know<br \/>\nThe best one and<br \/>\nThe hate one<br \/>\nAbstractly and concretely<br \/>\nI compared with<br \/>\nhopefully and hopelessly<br \/>\nIt was difficult to find<br \/>\nAn answer for both<br \/>\nBest and hate<br \/>\nI need all and love for all<br \/>\nWithout anyone<br \/>\nIt is a vacant to be called<br \/>\nHand of right or left<br \/>\nThe use and the \u00a0beauty<br \/>\nThe movement and feeling<br \/>\nMy heart and mind will reject<br \/>\nIf one deviate from the other<br \/>\nI looked back the past<br \/>\nThat already passed<br \/>\nI could not<br \/>\nWhat I today attained<br \/>\nI wanted to write and to call<br \/>\nTo my friends who are in silence<br \/>\nTo my enemies to whom I closed<br \/>\nIt was too late for past<br \/>\nBut tomorrow is for all<br \/>\n________________________<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Udaya R. Tennakoon \u2013 Poet\/ Diaspora Writer, Journalist, 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 my room<br \/>\nI saw my fingers<br \/>\nThat I have never thought of<\/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-32707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32707","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=32707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}