{"id":2775,"date":"2014-03-14T08:08:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T08:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2014\/03\/14\/ramdeep-ks-romann\/"},"modified":"2018-07-23T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T06:26:59","slug":"ramdeep-ks-romann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/ramdeep-ks-romann\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sparrow\u2019s Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I am because I think, then I live because I feel <\/span><\/p>\n

Dawn\u2019s skirling breeze, her crisp pure air,<\/span><\/p>\n

Nature\u2019s secrets unveiled, her beauty laid bare,<\/span><\/p>\n

As I gaze upon the only beauty that\u2019s real,<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch me soar in my lofty lair,<\/span><\/p>\n

Free from fear and worldly care,<\/span><\/p>\n

See me fly over thunderhead,<\/span><\/p>\n

Frightful storm and such things of dread,<\/span><\/p>\n

Over chasm deep and mountains old, I soar,<\/span><\/p>\n

And think of Man\u2019s yoke of yore:<\/span><\/p>\n

Politics, wars, religion<\/span><\/p>\n

And such things legion,<\/span><\/p>\n

If to think and feel are what make us whole,<\/span><\/p>\n

Then Man is a hollow thing indeed,<\/span><\/p>\n

His heart weeps while his mind kills the soul,<\/span><\/p>\n

Still he wars and steals and makes brothers bleed.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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* Published in print edition on 15 March 2014<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I am because I think, then I live because I feel Dawn\u2019s skirling breeze, her crisp pure air, Nature\u2019s secrets unveiled, her beauty laid bare, As I gaze upon the only beauty that\u2019s real, Watch me soar in my lofty lair, Free from fear and worldly care, See me fly over thunderhead, Frightful storm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":6560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7946],"tags":[12260,12259],"class_list":["post-2775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem","tag-ramdeep-ks-romann","tag-sparrows-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MT-Logokk.jpg?fit=1200%2C880&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-IL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}