{"id":2148,"date":"2024-11-16T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2025-11-27T22:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:33:11","slug":"bird-in-a-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/2024\/11\/16\/bird-in-a-cage\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird in a Cage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A caged bird,\u00a0still and slight,<\/p>\n<p>Tending\u00a0the hem of your lily-white.<\/p>\n<p>Eating, sleeping, imprisoned\u2014by routine,<\/p>\n<p>Chains forging your daylight clarity.<\/p>\n<p>You gaze at one who soars above the sea\u2014<\/p>\n<p>A dandelion born from a blue\u00a0note,<\/p>\n<p>Drifting beyond gravity\u2019s leash,<\/p>\n<p>Into a void \u2014\u00a0blue ocean, blue sky, and the blue beyond blue.<\/p>\n<p>But fate is a blade of eyes,<\/p>\n<p>A sword that pierces wings upon the peak of dusk.<\/p>\n<p>Its blood flares like sparks across the twilight,<\/p>\n<p>Then sinks into a sea of snowy clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Oh,\u00a0caged bird, you are the convict, the prisoner.<\/p>\n<p>It is you who tend the one that flies.<\/p>\n<p>That sky you dreamed of as vast and wide\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Was just your soul, still trapped inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A caged bird,\u00a0still and slight, Tending\u00a0the hem of your lily-white. Eating, sleeping, imprisoned\u2014by routine, Chains forging your daylight clarity. You gaze at one who soars above<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}