{"id":17901,"date":"2018-12-13T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=17901"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:42:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:42:33","slug":"sonam-chhoki-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sonam-chhoki-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonam Chhoki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>*<\/b><\/p>\n<p>pressed<br \/>\nin my diary<br \/>\nthe guava blossom<br \/>\nyou picked<br \/>\nhas lost its fragrance<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>rain-soaked<br \/>\nscent of pine duff<br \/>\nI still walk<br \/>\nour favourite slope to watch<br \/>\npaddy\u00a0ripening in the fields<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>heads thrown back<br \/>\na pair of black-necked cranes<br \/>\nfling their call to the sky<br \/>\nI hope they will never know<br \/>\nthe keening cry of separation<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>stars coursing<br \/>\nin the statuary pines<br \/>\nI no longer pray<br \/>\nbut now embrace<br \/>\nsolitude\u00a0in\u00a0your absence<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&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\u2019s 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<p class=\"FacebookLikeButton\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; * pressed in my diary the guava blossom you picked has lost its fragrance * rain-soaked scent of pine duff I still walk our favourite slope to watch paddy\u00a0ripening in the fields * heads thrown back a pair of black-necked cranes fling their call to the sky I hope they will never know [&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-17901","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\/17901","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=17901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17903,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901\/revisions\/17903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}