{"id":672,"date":"2018-12-10T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aradhanamishra.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2018-12-10T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T10:31:00","slug":"december-the-end-or-not-quite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"December-The End&#8230; Or Not Quite"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"672\" class=\"elementor elementor-672 elementor-bc-flex-widget\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-624282be elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"624282be\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7a9ec611\" data-id=\"7a9ec611\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-14c8e099 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"14c8e099\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-677\" src=\"http:\/\/aradhanamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/December-Berries-Desktop-300x187.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><strong style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 0.9em;\">\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 0.9em;\">End you signal-of days, of weeks, of months,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Of all the moments, wrapped in the kaleidoscopic sheets,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Of joy, of sadness, of merriment and of sorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">In your winter blanket you cover all<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">That had beautiful flowers and velvety grass,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Sheltering the life in that insulated burrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">In the backdrop of the sky gone lavender,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">You paint the landscape with brown leaves<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">And mystical and enchanting fog,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Yet the competent and wise eyes see the unseen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">For they know beneath the surface, life persists,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">And December is just an analogue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">A bridge in the making, joining the cobbled past,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">With the road leading to the future,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Yet to be explored and yet to be known,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Dear December, how profoundly do you teach us,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The end is not the end, but a new start,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">For such an end, why to moan?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">You summon us to celebrate it as the beginning,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">With a cluster of stars, hung like the lanterns<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">In the clear sky, in a pattern so exquisite,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Oh December! You set the stage for another play,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">An inexorable end you might bring<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">To the one ongoing, and yet-not quite!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Copyright \u00a9 Aradhana Mishra<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0End you signal-of days, of weeks, of months, Of all the moments, wrapped in the kaleidoscopic sheets, Of joy, of sadness, of merriment and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":677,"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":[40,82,98,101,215],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-english","tag-beginning","tag-december","tag-end","tag-english-poetry","tag-new-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","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=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/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=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}