{"id":2260,"date":"2024-07-28T22:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T22:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afflatuscreations.com\/?page_id=2260"},"modified":"2024-08-01T21:50:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T21:50:39","slug":"remembrance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afflatuscreations.com\/index.php\/remembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2260\" class=\"elementor elementor-2260\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e700cb2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e700cb2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f94a7d6\" data-id=\"f94a7d6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3b7394 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c3b7394\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Remembrance<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, I sat down to write a poem about my Acha,<\/p>\n<p>can there be a poem about him without my Amma?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They bunched like white and red roses,<\/p>\n<p>like pansy blooms and faced gains and losses<\/p>\n<p>with violet or orange blooms.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>and rest together under the same soil as I lit their funeral pyres<\/p>\n<p>within a short period of three years<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I remember :<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>her, holding me close to the bosom and feeding me slowly,<\/p>\n<p>under one night sky, twinkling stars and constellations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>he waits for me on rainy evenings in the bus shelter for my bus,<\/p>\n<p>under the black umbrella, holds me close with his hands,<\/p>\n<p>exchanging the day&#8217;s tidings laugh loudly.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>she rolled the brown rice ball sweetened with jaggery<\/p>\n<p>telling about colourful birds and stars<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>he sits by my sick bedside, smiling with impish eyes,<\/p>\n<p>gave me medicine, lay near me, pat my back till I turned sleepy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Note &#8211; I don&#8217;t know why\u00a0 Father&#8217;s Day and Mother&#8217;s Day falls on diffrent days.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Jun 16, Ramachandran Rajasekharan<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>An Autumn Night&#8217;s Warmth<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Autumn moon of the October skies<\/p>\n<p>falling brown leaves float down to heaps<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>the seasonal earthly fragrance soothes my nostrils<\/p>\n<p>as I lie in my house looking at the moonlit flowing waters<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A mute swan, having found its lifetime partner, caress<\/p>\n<p>and its black eyeliner orange beaks kisses<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by William Butler Yeats.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Apr 14, Ramachandran Rajasekharan<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembrance \u00a0 Today, I sat down to write a poem about my Acha, can there be a poem about him without my Amma? \u00a0 They bunched like white and red roses, like pansy blooms and faced gains and losses with violet or orange blooms. \u00a0 and rest together under the same soil as I lit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2260","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Remembrance - Afflatus Creations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today, I sat down to write a poem about my Acha,can there be a poem about him without my Amma ? 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