{"id":189,"date":"2015-09-23T08:14:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T12:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/?page_id=189"},"modified":"2023-04-04T20:44:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T01:44:04","slug":"message-in-a-bottle-er-web-strand-my-life-a-stairway-to-infinity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/our-poetry\/message-in-a-bottle-er-web-strand-my-life-a-stairway-to-infinity","title":{"rendered":"Message in a bottle (er.. web strand&#8230;) My life &#8211; a stairway to infinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do days seem to walk ahead?<br \/>\nChildren dance &#8211; why can&#8217;t I?<br \/>\nGreen should be my color of choice.<br \/>\nDawn should be the beginning of each new beginning!<\/p>\n<p>Yes &#8211; I ramble!<br \/>\nSo how does that make it any different?<br \/>\nBlue is but a mood that expresses a shape of the persona!<\/p>\n<p>Free is another confusion!<br \/>\nSince when did a word just mean only what it said?<br \/>\nMan is but emotion expressed.<br \/>\nFind one, and the next illusion starts<\/p>\n<p>Aim high &#8211; time cycles but life only progresses.<br \/>\nAppearances deceive &#8211; but truth is right in front of you<br \/>\nParrots do not sing in the rain &#8211; but rain is its own song, needing no other<br \/>\nRapidly does each space find its end &#8211; but opens just as quickly to the next<br \/>\nShields go up only when there is a need to block.<\/p>\n<p>True joy is in simple spaces<br \/>\nWhen a smile lights a room, why look to complicate the moment?<br \/>\nSee with the mind &#8211; the eyes only deceive!<\/p>\n<p>New beginnings follow on the heels of each ending<br \/>\nWe have to keep following the path time pts in front of us!<br \/>\nVexation is but an expression of the confused mind<br \/>\nLasting joy comes only when we overcome the momentary impulse!<\/p>\n<p>Seasons are Nature&#8217;s reaffirmation of its belief in the cyclic way<br \/>\nAt each change is a shift to a different expression of bliss<br \/>\nBranched forks do not exist &#8211; nor do tangents &#8211; this is a clean loop<br \/>\na Brigand it is not &#8211; it leads me the one way only and no other!<br \/>\nWhile I, not knowing better, do my best to tear away from its gentle lead and land in the quicksand..<\/p>\n<p>Is it right to say I am blind?<br \/>\nIs the mystery of my own making, a mirage created by me and my confusion?<\/p>\n<p>Right or wrong, here I stand<br \/>\nSeeking to find &#8211; ready to listen<br \/>\nStarting my next step as a very new beginning<br \/>\nReady to learn what life will teach<br \/>\nReady to listen &#8211; are you ready to speak?<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8211; Mani<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do days seem to walk ahead? Children dance &#8211; why can&#8217;t I? Green should be my color of choice. Dawn should be the beginning of each new beginning! Yes &#8211; I ramble! So how does that make it any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/our-poetry\/message-in-a-bottle-er-web-strand-my-life-a-stairway-to-infinity\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-189","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189\/revisions\/190"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}