{"id":12696,"date":"2017-04-06T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12696"},"modified":"2017-04-04T19:44:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T19:44:24","slug":"kushal-poddar-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/kushal-poddar-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Kushal Poddar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If I Commit Something Stupid In My Dream<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You become the hundredth sheep<br \/>\nstuck at the rugged fence painted white<br \/>\non my melancholic nights.<\/p>\n<p>I confessed my feelings for someone else<br \/>\nhours before and faced a soft laughter.<br \/>\nYou say, &#8220;It&#8217;s alright to be wrong most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here.&#8221;<br \/>\nYou become sleep in my dream. Really I am awake.<br \/>\nRain pours a cup of darkness. No moon. Stars all wrecked.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kushal Poddar<\/strong>, widely published in several countries, presently lives at Kolkata and is editor of the online magazine <em>Words Surfacing<\/em>. He authored <em>The Circus Came To My Island<\/em> (Spare Change Press, Ohio), <em>A Place For Your Ghost Animals<\/em> (Ripple Effect Publishing, Colorado Springs), and <em>Understanding The Neighborhood<\/em> (BRP, Australia). His forthcoming venture is <em>Scratches Within.<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KushalTheWriter\/\"> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KushalTheWriter\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; If I Commit Something Stupid In My Dream You become the hundredth sheep stuck at the rugged fence painted white on my melancholic nights. I confessed my feelings for someone else hours before and faced a soft laughter. You say, &#8220;It&#8217;s alright to be wrong most of the time. I&#8217;m here.&#8221; You [&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-12696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696","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=12696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13520,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696\/revisions\/13520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}