{"id":33275,"date":"2013-09-02T14:12:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T13:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=33275"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:59:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:59:08","slug":"syrian-agony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/09\/syrian-agony\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Agony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">A bird flying in the Sky<br \/>\nCan be evidence<br \/>\nMay be blind<br \/>\nWhile the justice disappears<br \/>\nOver the point of view<\/p>\n<p>He may hate<br \/>\nTo sit with them<br \/>\nSticks on the sky<br \/>\nFlying without aim<br \/>\nLooking back and at<br \/>\nThe theories of peace<\/p>\n<p>Word to word<br \/>\nWeapon to weapon<br \/>\nBlood to blood<br \/>\nHand to hand<br \/>\nTo fight and to celebrate<br \/>\nFor a happiness of the end<\/p>\n<p>Epic turns pages<br \/>\nLearns lessons<br \/>\nWithout verbs<\/p>\n<p>Freeze Rivers of universe<br \/>\nMelt and flow<br \/>\nPouring human blood<br \/>\nTurning into \u201cRed Sea\u201d<br \/>\nUniting the sea of whole<\/p>\n<p>Glory and power<br \/>\nWill of desire<br \/>\nBi- tri \u2013 polar<br \/>\nToast for over<\/p>\n<p>Arrogant decision<br \/>\nLegitimates peace<br \/>\nInnocent civilian<br \/>\nEncages to piece<\/p>\n<p>Die and cry<br \/>\nCarry on why<br \/>\nSyrian\u2019s sky<br \/>\nHeave a sigh<\/p>\n<p>Bird you and I are misguided<br \/>\nMedia as a medium<br \/>\nIs as a message<br \/>\nHegemony of the God<br \/>\nOf several hands<br \/>\n________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Udaya R. Tennakoon \u2013 Poet\/ Diaspora Writer, Peace and Human Rights Activist. Student at the World Peace Academy, University of Basel, Switzerland.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bird flying in the Sky<br \/>\nCan be evidence<br \/>\nMay be blind<br \/>\nWhile the justice disappears<br \/>\nOver the point of view<\/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-33275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33275","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=33275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}