{"id":33516,"date":"2013-09-11T17:44:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T16:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=33516"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:59:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:59:06","slug":"a-blue-pearl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/09\/a-blue-pearl\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blue Pearl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(A tribute to Comrade Sunila Abeysekara)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a tear drop<br \/>\nIn the Indian Ocean<br \/>\nJustice is a drop<br \/>\nIn the darkness heaven<br \/>\nShe is a blue pearl<br \/>\nTo the voice of rights<\/p>\n<p>Closed her door<br \/>\nFor an eternal sleep<br \/>\nVoice she made<br \/>\nEchoes in clouds<br \/>\nAs a traitor<br \/>\nA rewarded image<br \/>\nMay have suffered<br \/>\nThough she like it<\/p>\n<p>Songs she sung voiced<br \/>\nSilent hearts waken<br \/>\nEven the enemy listens<br \/>\nCasting the name in cold blood<\/p>\n<p>Gentle heart owns classless mind<br \/>\nHarmonized eyes seek<br \/>\nBeauty of the world<br \/>\nA legacy for the thought<br \/>\nFrom Revolutionary time<br \/>\nSelected field is in a hard time<\/p>\n<p>Being a pearl in a tiny world<br \/>\nProjects the beams of rights<br \/>\nHaving grasped from<br \/>\nThe Transcend world<\/p>\n<p>Tolerates the disgust and despise<br \/>\nSmiles the heart<br \/>\nMay have hidden<br \/>\nThe wounded pain<\/p>\n<p>It is enough of learnt lessons<br \/>\nThe death may have thought perhaps<br \/>\nShe is gone and farewell to us<br \/>\nDeeds and thoughts her smile kept<br \/>\n________________________________<\/p>\n<p><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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a tear drop<br \/>\nIn the Indian Ocean<br \/>\nJustice is a drop<br \/>\nIn the darkness heaven<br \/>\nShe is a blue pearl<br \/>\nTo the voice of rights<\/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-33516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33516","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=33516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}