{"id":479,"date":"2017-12-21T21:19:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T21:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/?p=479"},"modified":"2017-12-21T21:19:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T21:19:30","slug":"witness-to-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/witness-to-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness to nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333300;\"><strong>Aziz Isa Elkun<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #030354;\">If I could pretend tonight\u2028<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\">I was stargazing at the winter sky<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\"> \u2028I was standing alone on the shore\u2028<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\">and my lonely shadow followed me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\"> \u2028under the glowing moonlight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #030354;\">Separation makes me homesick<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\">this is human nature <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\">when I seek a remedy for my sadness<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\">the stars twinkle back half closing their eyes<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\">I stand far away from them<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\">but I know my fate lies with the moon<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\">I see the foolishness of the borders we make<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\">when I watch the freedom of the moon\u2019s movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #030354;\">Then I see an amazing view<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\">there is a place before my eyes <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\">where everything in nature embraces<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\">all melting into one,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\">hottest among them is the sun, <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #030354;\">it boils, effervescent, and sinks into the dusk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #030354;\">9th December 2017, London.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aziz Isa Elkun If I could pretend tonight\u2028 I was stargazing at the winter sky \u2028I was standing alone on the shore\u2028 and my lonely shadow followed me \u2028under the glowing moonlight. Separation makes me homesick this is human nature when I seek a remedy for my sadness the stars twinkle back half closing their<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/witness-to-nature\/\" title=\"Read Witness to nature\">Read more&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,70],"tags":[16,90],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aziz-isa-elkun-poems","category-elkun-poems-in-english","tag-aziz-isa-elkun-poems","tag-witness-to-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","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=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azizisa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}