{"id":16217,"date":"2018-04-29T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16217"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:42:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:42:33","slug":"sonam-chhoki-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sonam-chhoki-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonam Chhoki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>spring notes<\/b><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>first thaw<\/div>\n<div>dwarf rhododendrons<\/div>\n<div>colour the slope<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0*<\/div>\n<div>spring offering<\/div>\n<div>the path to the shrine<\/div>\n<div>covered in primulas<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0*<\/div>\n<p>the sky\u2019s scarlet rim<br \/>\nas if someone ordered it<br \/>\nlights up the pines<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0*<\/div>\n<div>gun metal sky<\/div>\n<div>the Plough<\/div>\n<div>faintly luminous<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Sonam Chhoki<\/strong> finds the Japanese short form poetry resonates with her Tibetan Buddhist upbringing. \u00a0She is inspired by her father, Sonam Gyamtsho,\u00a0the architect of Bhutan&#8217;s non-monastic modern education and by her mother, Chhoden Jangmu, who taught her: \u201cBeing a girl doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t do anything.\u201d <span lang=\"EN-GB\">She is the principal editor and co-editor of haibun for the United Haiku and Tanka Society journal, <i>cattails<\/i>.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; spring notes &nbsp; first thaw dwarf rhododendrons colour the slope &nbsp; \u00a0* spring offering the path to the shrine covered in primulas &nbsp; \u00a0* the sky\u2019s scarlet rim as if someone ordered it lights up the pines &nbsp; \u00a0* gun metal sky the Plough faintly luminous &nbsp; &nbsp; Sonam Chhoki finds the [&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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217","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=16217"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16475,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217\/revisions\/16475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}