{"id":40945,"date":"2023-04-21T15:49:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T15:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.85.16.36\/143-1-en\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T21:08:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T21:08:06","slug":"143-1-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/143-1-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom &#8211; A poem by Mehrdad Naghibi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/p>\n<p>Freedom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A poem by Mehrdad Naghibi<\/p>\n<p>Freedom,<\/p>\n<p>Oh burning spark,<\/p>\n<p>Bloom like a flower.<\/p>\n<p>Now in the vast plain,<\/p>\n<p>You will blossom,<\/p>\n<p>Oh blood-stained flower,<\/p>\n<p>Every night the wounded birds<\/p>\n<p>Will sing a song for you.<\/p>\n<p>They will raise their voices,<\/p>\n<p>Oh sister,<\/p>\n<p>Oh brother;<\/p>\n<p>When the people roar on the shores of the Caspian Sea,<\/p>\n<p>And those brave ones,<\/p>\n<p>On the path of the battlefield of love,<\/p>\n<p>Take steps towards the boundless plains of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the sound of bullets;<\/p>\n<p>From burnt chests,<\/p>\n<p>The fist of the sun will pick flowers.<\/p>\n<p>That tree of freedom,<\/p>\n<p>Will stand tall,<\/p>\n<p>From the blood of many.<\/p>\n<p>In the tears of the oppressed,<\/p>\n<p>In the eyes of sorrow,<\/p>\n<p>It destroys life.<\/p>\n<p>Oh flower, broken into a thousand pieces,<\/p>\n<p>I am trapped in my heart,<\/p>\n<p>In this burnt plain;<\/p>\n<p>Oh blessed words,<\/p>\n<p>I cry out to you,<\/p>\n<p>Freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom A poem by Mehrdad Naghibi Freedom, Oh burning spark, Bloom like a flower. Now in the vast plain, You will blossom, Oh blood-stained flower, Every night the wounded birds Will sing a song for you. They will raise their voices, Oh sister, Oh brother; When the people roar on the shores of the Caspian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5454],"tags":[51221,51220,50602,50173,50159,45317,50146],"class_list":["post-40945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-9-peace-treaty-1439","tag-freedom","tag-mehrdad-naghibi","tag-poetry","tag-50159","tag-45317","tag----2"],"acf":[],"views":24,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64034,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945\/revisions\/64034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}