{"id":554,"date":"2018-10-05T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aradhanamishra.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2018-10-05T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T09:36:00","slug":"her-soldier-in-the-white-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Her soldier in the white mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aradhanamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/soldier-300x225.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The nip in the morning and the rays falling askance on the window pane,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Remind her, winter was on its way- in the plain and in the mountain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u201cFinally! Over is the excruciating summer!!,\u201d she sighed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">A smile sprouted off her shapely mouth, but thereon defied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">For her soldier was up in the mountains, in the vigil of his land,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Soon, it will be white all around there, a vista -majestic and grand!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Soon, it will be cold with the rivers frozen and the trees bare,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">But alert he will have to be, his duty for his country- that\u2019s all he would care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u201cwell, I shall stitch a quilt for my soldier, to keep him warm,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">With appliques of affection, courage, belief and a bit of my charm,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">She thought, her world had the colours in the smile of her child,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">While he stood guard, on that snowy peak, in the silent night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Maybe, she shall pack some childhood of their son too and send it there,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Lest it\u2019s eaten by the termites of the time- to him that shall be unfair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">She, her soldier\u2019s eve, shall wait with as much fortitude and grit, if not more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Till he comes home, let her heart wait and let her heart soar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">There will be dawn of the peace when the \u2018winter\u2019 of unrest is over,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">He then, shall be back with pride in his heart, and unmistakable composure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">To the aroma of that chocolate cake being baked, to the hee-haw of his child,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">And to the smell of freshly cut lawn- in his absence gone wild.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Copyright \u00a9 Aradhana Mishra<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Picture credit- Google plus<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The nip in the morning and the rays falling askance on the window pane, Remind her, winter was on its way- in the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32,76,204,271,276],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-english","tag-armywife","tag-courage","tag-mountain","tag-snow","tag-soldier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}