{"id":2680,"date":"2022-05-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2022-05-23T11:45:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T09:45:29","slug":"ode-to-an-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/2022\/05\/ode-to-an-oak\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to an Oak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0099cc;font-size: small\"><b>Image:<\/b> \u00a9 Elo\u00efse Wenger<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Author:<\/strong> Elo\u00efse Wenger<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">1.<br \/>\nWhen the shadows of Evening will descend<br \/>\nThe Sky and its colours will fade and turn<br \/>\nRevealing a painting of a new blend<br \/>\nIn which the pink and red will start to burn.<\/p>\n<p>2.<br \/>\nThen I will leave my house and close my door.<br \/>\nPassing the gate and the luminous church<br \/>\nI will go to the Forest and explore<br \/>\nthe woods of fir, maple, willow and birch.<\/p>\n<p>3.<br \/>\nI will see you waving your leaves at me,<br \/>\nYour trunk rending the Sky and newborn Stars.<br \/>\n\u201cHello my dearest friend.. Mon cher ami!\u201d<br \/>\nFor your vision makes me forget my scars.<\/p>\n<p>4.<br \/>\nYou must have been the witness of so much:<br \/>\nThe seasons passing, your branches growing<br \/>\nAll your memories flow in me at your touch<br \/>\nAnd your embrace makes me think I am flying<\/p>\n<p>5.<br \/>\nThen I follow the path until I see<br \/>\nThe Woods glooming at the top of the Hill,<br \/>\nLythe Lane stopping in sight of the first tree,<br \/>\nA place where all the people remain still.<\/p>\n<p>6.<br \/>\nThere I sit on the Bench<a id=\"_ftnref1\" href=\"#_ftn1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a>. It is written:<br \/>\n\u201cLest we forget.\u201d Words of a mum. Jenny..<br \/>\nYour son is gone with the flags of Britain.<br \/>\nWhere is he now? Here? Or in that country?<\/p>\n<p>7.<br \/>\nThere must be the very same Bench out there,<br \/>\nWith the words of another mum on it.<br \/>\nThe language is difficult to compare,<br \/>\nNot the Loss that they will never admit.<\/p>\n<p>8.<br \/>\nWatching humans condemned to endless grief<br \/>\nI feel my hopes are coming to an end<br \/>\nAnd at the sight of a first falling leaf<br \/>\nThe fear of losing you my dearest friend..<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<p><a id=\"_ftn1\" href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> This Bench up Lythe Lane is dedicated to the memory of Richard, the son of Jenny, one of my neighbours, who lost his life in 2010 during his service in the Marines in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: \u00a9 Elo\u00efse Wenger Author: Elo\u00efse Wenger 1. When the shadows of Evening will descend The Sky and its colours will fade and turn Revealing a painting of a new blend In which the pink and red will start to burn. 2. Then I will leave my house and close my door. Passing the gate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001995,"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":[72],"tags":[36],"class_list":{"0":"post-2680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-2022-spring","7":"tag-poetry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","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\/1001995"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}