{"id":68,"date":"2022-05-14T17:20:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T17:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2022-05-16T11:42:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T11:42:48","slug":"68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Window to Another World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code><em>This poem was written on the day of a tragic shooting in the subway system in Brooklyn, NY. I visited The Bhakti Center and its beautiful Deity Room. The painting described is near the back of the room, where I was sitting, and it captured my attention<\/em>.\n\n\nI saw the painting in the room of Deities:\nKrishna smiled\n joyous in the presence of those around Him --\n    monkeys, tiger, peacock, cows, and swan.\nNot one was capable of speaking a word,\n   but in mute rapture, they approached,\n   drawn, attracted, unable to turn their gaze away. \n Denizens of the holiest of all places,\n   in the woods of Vrndavana.\n\nThat morning I walked down lower Manhattan trash smell street,\n  and tried to recognize those around me.\nI could see only that they were\n  the expressionless,\n  the hurrying,\n  the dangerous,  the fearful.\nUnable to look each other in the eye,\n   they moved in independent untouching orbits\n   around an unseen and unsuspected truth. \n\nThere I was among them,\n  with a thought  I dare not speak,\n  a message I did not deliver.\nNot really part of that silent world,\n  but not yet able to enter the other.\n\nNo  -  I was also there, in that blessed forest scene,\n  the last adoring beast to arrive.\nA step or two away, \n  beginning to move closer, timid,\n  a quiet heart finding its voice at last.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}