{"id":82225,"date":"2019-10-20T02:55:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T21:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=82225"},"modified":"2019-10-20T02:55:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T21:25:56","slug":"poem-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/10\/20\/poem-25\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>My Good Old Mother<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>-By Tanuel Nonang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhy do I feel sad?\u201d I asked \u201cwhen I have it all?\u201d<br \/>\nWhen I have everything to keep together my body and soul<br \/>\nWhy I feel cold, so cold during the night?<br \/>\nHave I done something wrong, which I cannot make right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then I realized I lost something so dear,<br \/>\nMy good old mother, alas! Now I fear<br \/>\nThat I\u2019ll have to live alone without her now<br \/>\nO cruel the Death! Using his scythe on lives to mow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How stupid was I to overlook the love of motherly bosom<br \/>\nWhich kept me alive in the forest of life to blossom<br \/>\nHighest was my height of insolence when I didn\u2019t care<br \/>\nFor the toys she bought me from the village fair<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I became a man, Cleopatra\u2019s beauty died in her<br \/>\nWeak body, memory and wrinkles grew on her<br \/>\nMy good old mother, begging for her son\u2019s love<br \/>\nCame near him, but all he gave was a shove<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now that she\u2019s not here on earth, I miss her<br \/>\nAnd every time I look up in the clouds I see her<br \/>\nSometimes pouring her tears upon me<br \/>\nSometimes warm rays on my face I see<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Someday I will go up there and beg her<br \/>\nTo forgive me for the things I have done to her<br \/>\nBut for now I can only cry and miss her<br \/>\nMy long lost mother, my good old mother<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Good Old Mother -By Tanuel Nonang \u201cWhy do I feel sad?\u201d I asked \u201cwhen I have it all?\u201d When I have everything to keep together my body and soul Why I feel cold, so cold during the night? Have I done something wrong, which I cannot make right? Then I realized I lost something [&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-82225","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\/82225","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=82225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}