{"id":137990650,"date":"2025-12-02T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/?p=137990650"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:11:09","slug":"peace-fragile-as-a-seashell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/peace-fragile-as-a-seashell\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace, Fragile as a Seashell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of my friend Vinitha Dileep&#8217;s two hundred and seventy-eighth edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/thevoidthoughts.com\/2025\/12\/01\/fiction-monday-280\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fiction Monday<\/a>, I wrote a little something on her prompt: Drift. Vinitha is a fine poet and a longtime blogging friend. Please be sure to visit her site, <a href=\"https:\/\/thevoidthoughts.com\/\" title=\"I've never quite understood the title of Vinitha's blog: Void Thoughts? I happen to know that her thoughts are more interesting than that. There is no void between those ears!\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Void Thoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On lifting a seashell to my ear, I heard a poem whooshing on a tide&#8230;water or just the blood coursing through my veins and rushing past my eardrums? You decide.<\/p>\n<h2>Balance in Nature<\/h2>\n<p><pre class=\"poem\">Grey seabirds bobbing on a tranquil sea\u2014\r\nhorizon out of reach, no change of scene\r\nor sound breaks hazy dawn's monotony.\r\n\r\nAdrift, a sea of troubles roils, foams\r\nas whitecaps seethe and day gives way to gloam\r\nthe silent, placid whale swims deep, to roam\r\n\r\nthe vastness of an undiscovered deep\r\ngreen forest, sunlit kelp and creatures keep\r\nslow time, and even sharks drift, dreaming, sleep.\r\n\r\nWe humans drag our toes on shifting sands\r\ntraversing gold-flecked shores of distant lands\u2014\r\na fragile peace, like seashells in our hands\r\n\r\nheld precious, broken, full of promise still\r\nan offering, a vow: \"We will not kill;\r\nwe'll heal the world together if you will.\"<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem inspired by Vinitha Dileep&#8217;s Fiction Monday prompt for December 1, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137990651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":[],"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-137990650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-writing"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 04:25:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137990650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137990653,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990650\/revisions\/137990653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137990651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137990650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137990650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137990650"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=137990650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}