{"id":58889,"date":"2015-06-01T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=58889"},"modified":"2015-05-29T16:20:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T15:20:40","slug":"a-bit-here-a-bit-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/06\/a-bit-here-a-bit-there\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit Here a Bit There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get up and stand up<br \/>\nA bit here and a bit there<br \/>\nThe body walks<br \/>\nThe mind flies<br \/>\nSeparate but together<br \/>\nLife lives<br \/>\nHopes dry<br \/>\nA bit here and a bit there<\/p>\n<p>The food which is cooked<br \/>\nFeel the taste and<br \/>\nSpread the smell<br \/>\nInside the cave<br \/>\nA bit here and a bit there<\/p>\n<p>Talk and listen<br \/>\nCut down the meaning<br \/>\nBecome calm and<br \/>\nThink in silence<br \/>\nGestures and smiles<br \/>\nA bit here and a bit there<\/p>\n<p>Dresses and styles<br \/>\nThe rhythm and walk<br \/>\nAdapt and change<br \/>\nA bit here and a bit there<br \/>\nDay and night<br \/>\nSun and moon<br \/>\nA slight difference<br \/>\nDarkness occupied<br \/>\nA bit here and a bit there<\/p>\n<p>Lost home and host land<br \/>\nCross mind and box building<br \/>\nDreams and memories<br \/>\nImaginary ghost<br \/>\nA bit here and a bit there<\/p>\n<p>Convert and compare<br \/>\nCount and consume<br \/>\nLock the desire and needs retire<br \/>\nA bit here and a bit there<\/p>\n<p>Shadow of the body<br \/>\nPull and push<br \/>\nToday tomorrow and yesterday<br \/>\nA bit here and a bit there<\/p>\n<p>Mind curses<br \/>\nHeart judges<br \/>\nBlurred direction<br \/>\nA bit here and a bit there<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>Get up and stand up<br \/>\nA bit here and a bit there<br \/>\nThe body walks<br \/>\nThe mind flies<br \/>\nSeparate but together<\/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-58889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58889","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=58889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}