{"id":12496,"date":"2017-03-07T14:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12496"},"modified":"2017-03-07T09:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T09:05:49","slug":"utsav-kaushik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/utsav-kaushik\/","title":{"rendered":"Utsav Kaushik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Color<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The light of the setting sun<br \/>\nShining behind the trees<br \/>\nAnd leaves mocking the window.<\/p>\n<p>Birds are&#8230;<br \/>\nChirping in praise of it<br \/>\nThat light has colored their feathers.<\/p>\n<p>I am so colored<br \/>\nLike the window pane,<br \/>\nStanding before the sun.<\/p>\n<p>But my color,<br \/>\nIt doesn\u2019t change,<br \/>\nThough it changes for others.<\/p>\n<p>The black brute<br \/>\nHovering outside<br \/>\nResembles a blazing meteor.<\/p>\n<p>Even the leaves \u2013<br \/>\nDeterminedly green \u2013<br \/>\nAppear yellow.<\/p>\n<p>Why nothing happens to me<br \/>\nExcept, my color.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Utsav Kaushik<\/strong> doesn\u2019t consider himself a poet yet likes to babble obscurity. His voice is deep set in the grey shades of North India. Nature always inspires him for awkward cacophony. And he is a very talkative poet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Color The light of the setting sun Shining behind the trees And leaves mocking the window. Birds are&#8230; Chirping in praise of it That light has colored their feathers. I am so colored Like the window pane, Standing before the sun. But my color, It doesn\u2019t change, Though it changes for others. The black [&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-12496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496","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=12496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12498,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496\/revisions\/12498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}