{"id":11509,"date":"2015-06-13T21:17:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T01:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=11509"},"modified":"2015-06-13T21:17:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T01:17:26","slug":"712-elegy-for-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/712-elegy-for-mum\/","title":{"rendered":"(#7\/12): \u201cElegy For Mum\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mater lies before me.<\/p>\n<p>Her earthly torments ceased.<\/p>\n<p>No more half-breaths to take,<\/p>\n<p>Eyes closed, in peace at last.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And yet, my tears do not run,<\/p>\n<p>No wellsprings of regret.<\/p>\n<p>Or mourning I perceive,<\/p>\n<p>This curious absence of grief.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I never listened.<\/p>\n<p>I never understood.<\/p>\n<p>I never empathised.<\/p>\n<p>I was never a good son.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You may think me cold.<\/p>\n<p>Unfeeling, ungrateful,<\/p>\n<p>The heart of a beast.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Mother, I mourn thee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2015 Silvester Phua<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mater lies before me. Her earthly torments ceased. No more half-breaths to take, Eyes closed, in peace at last. &nbsp; And yet, my tears do not run, No wellsprings of regret. Or mourning I perceive, This curious absence of grief. &nbsp; I never listened. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11515,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509\/revisions\/11515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}