{"id":42516,"date":"2015-03-21T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T17:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=42516"},"modified":"2015-03-21T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T17:22:28","slug":"ists-and-ism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/03\/21\/ists-and-ism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ists and\u00a0 Ism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Susantha Pallage\u00a0Wijesinghe\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I see through facets of a prism,<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful hearts, few faces of evil<\/p>\n<p>Nurturing doctrine of terrorism<\/p>\n<p>At the behest of the sordid devil.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Golden hearts breath fire in optimism,<\/p>\n<p>To scorch the doctrine of fascists,<\/p>\n<p>Yet dreaming in the sea of realism,<\/p>\n<p>A state of malignancy exists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Evil minds see visions of racialism,<\/p>\n<p>A precursor to be separatists,<\/p>\n<p>What good to the world is fanaticism,<\/p>\n<p>Leading life as segregationists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The young and old, like socialism<\/p>\n<p>In democratic splendour, to coexsist,<\/p>\n<p>Peace, happiness are lessons of idealism,<\/p>\n<p>Fostered in the eyes of redemptorists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No place in this world for cynicism,<\/p>\n<p>When noble savants as instrumentalists,<\/p>\n<p>Play in concert the cords of literalism,<\/p>\n<p>With advent of supreme society of jurists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Susantha Pallage\u00a0Wijesinghe<\/p>\n<p>A Melvin Jones Fellow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recipient of The Shakespeare Trophy of Excellence and,<\/p>\n<p>The Poet of The Year Medallion, for \u00a0&#8220;Ists and Ism,&#8221; at the<\/p>\n<p>Famous Poets Convention, held at the Reno Hilton, Nevada, in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Published in The International WHO&#8217;S WHO IN POETRY, and Great<\/p>\n<p>Poems of The Western World.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susantha Pallage\u00a0Wijesinghe\u00a0 I see through facets of a prism, Beautiful hearts, few faces of evil Nurturing doctrine of terrorism At the behest of the sordid devil. &nbsp; Golden hearts breath fire in optimism, To scorch the doctrine of fascists, Yet dreaming in the sea of realism, A state of malignancy exists. &nbsp; Evil minds see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}