{"id":95308,"date":"2017-07-17T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T11:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=95308"},"modified":"2017-07-16T17:24:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T16:24:38","slug":"tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/07\/tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2013 <em>Give me two pounds sir,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I will find a home by tomorrow <\/em>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>You can see him all day<br \/>\nasking for change: coins enough<br \/>\nto take him away from this wet<br \/>\nstreet of London.<\/p>\n<p>Memory is a distant home:<br \/>\nhe has forgotten we spoke<br \/>\nthree months ago on a Saturday<br \/>\nin January outside an immigrant&#8217;s<br \/>\nfries shop on the high street.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTake 50p and telephone Shelter,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>go to their office, they will<\/em><br \/>\n<em>put you somewhere.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>His memory always distant:<br \/>\neveryday he asks for change<br \/>\nfrom me, from old strangers,<br \/>\nhoping to find his home<br \/>\nby tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><em>__________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sumeet-grover.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-64959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sumeet-grover-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>Sumeet Grover is the founder of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpoetry.org\/\" ><strong>Global Poetry<\/strong><\/a><em>, dedicated to creativity, human dignity, dialogue and global citizenship. He is a winner of the Portico Brotherton Open Poetry Prize 2014 and was shortlisted for the Jane Martin Poetry Prize in 2014 &amp; 2015. He has authored two books of poetry: <\/em>House Arrest &amp; Disobedience (<em>2015<\/em>) <em>and <\/em>Change (<em>2011<\/em>). <em>Grover is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><strong>TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environmen<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><strong>t<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can see him all day<br \/>\nasking for change: coins enough<br \/>\nto take him away from this wet<br \/>\nstreet of London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95308","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=95308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}