{"id":243262,"date":"2024-06-30T00:28:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T18:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=243262"},"modified":"2024-06-30T00:28:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T18:58:39","slug":"poem-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/06\/30\/poem-99\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Echoes of the past<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8212; Kalyan Kumar Dutta<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>VKV Kharsang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIn a new school, a brand new start,<br \/>\nYet old faces linger in my heart.<br \/>\nEach student here, so fresh, so new,<br \/>\nBut memories of old ones come into view.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I see a smile, a laugh, a glance,<br \/>\nAnd think of those from a past dance.<br \/>\nA tilt of the head, a thoughtful reply,<br \/>\nBrings back a face from days gone by.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Could it be? No, it\u2019s just a dream,<br \/>\nFamiliar echoes, or so it seems.<br \/>\nThe way they answer, the way they learn,<br \/>\nStirs a past that forever burns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this room, with faces bright,<br \/>\nOld shadows blend with morning light.<br \/>\nNew names to learn, new stories to tell,<br \/>\nYet old ones in my mind still dwell.<\/p>\n<p>Each time I teach, each word I say,<br \/>\nA ghost of the past might come to play.<br \/>\nBut then I blink, and they are gone,<br \/>\nThese students here are moving on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A journey starts with every class,<br \/>\nNew memories made, old ones pass.<br \/>\nFor though the past will always stay,<br \/>\nThe future calls us day by day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Echoes of the past &#8212; Kalyan Kumar Dutta VKV Kharsang In a new school, a brand new start, Yet old faces linger in my heart. Each student here, so fresh, so new, But memories of old ones come into view. I see a smile, a laugh, a glance, And think of those from a past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-spark"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}