{"id":58089,"date":"2015-05-18T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=58089"},"modified":"2015-05-12T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:54:07","slug":"the-lyric-you-write-and-the-song-you-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/05\/the-lyric-you-write-and-the-song-you-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lyric You Write and the Song You Sing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sky wrote an amazing lyric<br \/>\nThe cloud composed a heavenly melody<br \/>\nIn the night I saw the moon sings softy<br \/>\nWith the chorus stars all around<\/p>\n<p>The wind conveys the message bravely<br \/>\nMoon flowers bloom slowly<br \/>\nBeauty beyond the Milky Way<br \/>\nReflects a metaphor on earth may<\/p>\n<p>At the down drops of dew<br \/>\nSlide from buds in silence<br \/>\nThe day begins with thousands flowers<br \/>\nThe rhythm and the meaning people slip<\/p>\n<p>Every day night, even in the dark<br \/>\nSky writes, the clouds compose<br \/>\nSomeone sings, if not moon and stars rise<br \/>\nThey\u2019re the people make the world peace<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re the people see the justice<br \/>\nBehind the beauty bring the practice<br \/>\nIn the noise change the voice<br \/>\nOf nature and culture shining price<br \/>\n_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Udaya R. Tennakoon \u2013 Poet\/ Diaspora Writer, Journalist, Peace and Human Rights Activist. <\/em><em>MA Student at the University of Innsbruck Austria.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sky wrote an amazing lyric<br \/>\nThe cloud composed a heavenly melody<br \/>\nIn the night I saw the moon sings softy<br \/>\nWith the chorus stars all around<\/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-58089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58089","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=58089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}