{"id":32,"date":"2016-01-31T21:05:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T21:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/?p=32"},"modified":"2017-03-27T14:06:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T14:06:51","slug":"blocked-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/blocked-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"Blocked Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Aziz Isa Elkun<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Quiet and solitary under the night sky,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">Swimming alone towards the limitless universe.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">Seeking my soul mate amongst the stars,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">The birth of hope sears my heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Embarrassed, I met with the moon,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">The moon girl greeted me, \u201cSalam\u201d she said.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">Had she seen my melancholy heart?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">Gently smiling she said, \u201cShall we talk?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cAt last we have managed to meet,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">My guest from the ancient Tarim basin,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">Are you still alive under my light?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">Is the Taklimakan desert still sleeping?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">My blocked emotions returned to me,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">I left the moon girl\u2019s questions unanswered.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bitter pain pierced my heart,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">I left, eyes cast down in the twilight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Written in Aqsu on 12th December 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Read the original version of this poem in Uyghur: <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" http:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/boghulghan_heslar\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/boghulghan_heslar<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Read the original version of this poem in Turkish: <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" http:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/tikanan-hisler\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/tikanan-hisler<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aziz Isa Elkun Quiet and solitary under the night sky, Swimming alone towards the limitless universe. Seeking my soul mate amongst the stars, The birth of hope sears my heart. Embarrassed, I met with the moon, The moon girl greeted me, \u201cSalam\u201d she said. Had she seen my melancholy heart? Gently smiling she said, \u201cShall<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/blocked-emotions\/\" title=\"Read Blocked Emotions\">Read more&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,70,30],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aziz-isa-elkun-poems","category-elkun-poems-in-english","category-poem-translation","tag-blocked-emotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}