{"id":10943,"date":"2016-06-01T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10943"},"modified":"2016-06-01T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T15:37:12","slug":"alisa-velaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/alisa-velaj\/","title":{"rendered":"Alisa Velaj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Love is so ignorant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My love drinks water from plastic cups.<br \/>\nLeaning its elbows against the wooden table,<br \/>\nLost in thought, it watches the river going through the city.<\/p>\n<p>My love is so thoughtful and thirsty<br \/>\nThat it fails to feel the touch of rain wetting its hands.<\/p>\n<p>Not knowing that the SOURCE is behind the mountain,<br \/>\nMy love still seeks water in plastic cups.<\/p>\n<p>My love is so ignorant and thirsty\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Alisa Velaj<\/strong>\u00a0 is an Albanian poet whose work has appeared in a number of print and online international magazines.\u00a0 For more information this is her website:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquillrelle.com\/authoralisa.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.aquillrelle.com\/authoralisa.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This poem is translated from Albanian by Uk\u00eb Zenel Bu\u00e7papaj.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; My Love is so ignorant My love drinks water from plastic cups. Leaning its elbows against the wooden table, Lost in thought, it watches the river going through the city. My love is so thoughtful and thirsty That it fails to feel the touch of rain wetting its hands. Not knowing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10943"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10946,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943\/revisions\/10946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}