{"id":2147,"date":"2021-12-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2021-11-29T16:51:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T15:51:50","slug":"sylvie-di-vitos-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/2021\/12\/sylvie-di-vitos-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvie Di Vito&#8217;s poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0099cc;font-size: small\"><strong>Images:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u00a9 Sylvie Di Vito<\/span><\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:post-content --> <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Author<\/strong>: Sylvie Di Vito<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2148\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/files\/2021\/11\/painting-That-Other-Place.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"358\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<!-- wp:paragraph {\"align\":\"left\"} -->\n\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"align\":\"left\",\"id\":2153,\"width\":232,\"height\":311,\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:verse -->\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>That Other Place\n<\/strong>\n\nHow strange it is\u2026\nI don't recall \nWhich was the path\nTo this strange place\nI look around \nWhat could it be\nA piece of hell? \nA piece of grace?\n\nIn here the sun \nReflects the moons\nAnd kites fly high \nThough there's no wind\nThrough gates once locked \nNow gaping doors\nI watch the sages\nbecome fools!\n\nI have met people \nin this place\nThat I was most \nhappy to see\nFor I'd have sworn\nHand on my heart\nLong time ago\nHad ceased to be \n\nHere Love and Fear \nAre King and Queen\nAnd all their children \nAll night long\nEnjoy the game \nOf harlequin\n\nHow odd to lie\nWhere deceit rules\nWhere even killed \nI never die!\n\nBut O you dreamer \nDon't you see\nHow this mirror\n-Secretly-\nDistorted \nEvery bit \nOf your \nRea-\n-li-\n-ty?\n<\/pre>\n<!-- \/wp:verse -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"align\":\"center\",\"id\":2231,\"width\":226,\"height\":303,\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/files\/2021\/11\/painting-for-Natures-Song-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2231\" width=\"226\" height=\"303\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:verse -->\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Nature's Song<\/strong>\n\n\u2026 And every day, we see her walk these ways;\nA ghostly shade, despite the wind or rain\u2026\nShe talks, she screams, she weeps and then she prays;\nWe, silent, hear her endless same refrain.\nWe do our best to calm her dreadful fears\u2026\n-Though, sadly, helpless feel- and this is why,\nWith tender leaves I catch her bitter tears\nAnd with our heart we sing a lullaby.\nAs she, against me, leans through her despair,\nThe river swells her voice in gentle shush\nThe wind and I intone a joyful air:\nHer pain by rustling branches try to hush\n\u2026 And every day a smile we hope to see\nHer sorrow yet too heavy seems to be\u2026\n<\/pre>\n<!-- \/wp:verse --><!-- \/wp:image -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images:&nbsp;\u00a9 Sylvie Di Vito Author: Sylvie Di Vito &nbsp; That Other Place How strange it is\u2026 I don&#8217;t recall Which was the path To this strange place I look around What could it be A piece of hell? A piece of grace? In here the sun Reflects the moons And kites fly high Though there&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[36],"class_list":{"0":"post-2147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-2021-winter","7":"tag-poetry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}