{"id":659,"date":"2009-06-21T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T09:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/library\/my-flute\/o-bird-of-light\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T13:41:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T13:41:29","slug":"o-bird-of-light","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/?page_id=659","title":{"rendered":"O Bird of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thought, one tune, one resonance-<br \/>\nWho calls me ever and anon?<br \/>\nI know not where I am.<br \/>\nI know not whither I shall go.<br \/>\nIn dark amnesia,<br \/>\nMyself I buy, myself I sell.<br \/>\nAll I break, again all I build.<br \/>\nAll I hope to be mine, mine alone.<br \/>\nAlas, my heart is eclipsed<br \/>\nBy dark and wild destruction night.<\/p>\n<p>O Bird of Light, O Bird of Light,<br \/>\nWith your glowing and flowing flames<br \/>\nDo enter into my heart once again.<br \/>\nYou are calling me to climb up<br \/>\nAnd fly into the blue.<br \/>\nBut how can I?<br \/>\nMy heart is in prison,<br \/>\nIn the strangled breath of a tiny room.<br \/>\nO Bird of Light, O Bird of Light, <br \/>\nO Bird of Light Supreme.<br \/>\nIn me, I pray, keep not an iota of gloom.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from &#8216;<a href=\"..\">My Flute<\/a>&#8216; by&nbsp; <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/sri_chinmoy\">Sri Chinmoy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright &copy; <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/sri_chinmoy\">Sri Chinmoy<\/a> 1974<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":581,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-659","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3624,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659\/revisions\/3624"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}