﻿﻿{"id":4985,"date":"2025-12-31T13:13:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ici-ce.com\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:38:46","slug":"la-lyre-emigree-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ici-ce.com\/en\/la-lyre-emigree-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"THE EMIGRATED LYRE 2025 (Poem by: Val\u00e9rie Antoine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1 \/ In the silence of the night<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the silence of the night<br \/>\nA cry resounded<br \/>\nBreaking the fullness<br \/>\nOf my sleeping dreams<\/p>\n<p>In the silence of the night<br \/>\nThe cry resounded<br \/>\nOf that Kurdish mother<br \/>\nBefore the body of her battered child<\/p>\n<p>In the silence of the night<br \/>\nThe cries resounded<br \/>\nOf decimated soldiers<br \/>\nBy the blazing wheat fields<\/p>\n<p>In the silence of the night<br \/>\nI heard the cry<br \/>\nOf our Mother Earth<br \/>\nBroken before so much misery<\/p>\n<p>In the silence of our nights<br \/>\nWill we hear the cries<br \/>\nOf our poet brothers<br \/>\nSo that these useless conquests cease<\/p>\n<p>In the silence of the night<br \/>\nA single cry burst forth<\/p>\n<p>From hundreds of countries<br \/>\nTo respect Life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2 \/ In my sky today<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few gray clouds<br \/>\nResonating with the clamor<br \/>\nOf this world that sinks<br \/>\nA little deeper into torpor<\/p>\n<p>My journey continues<br \/>\nAlways these gray clouds<br \/>\nFrom the noise of the city<br \/>\nTo the green plains<br \/>\nThe landscapes parade<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts escape<br \/>\nThe vision of grenades returns to me<br \/>\nIn the hands of innocents<br \/>\nTheir war song<br \/>\nIn the name of God resounding<\/p>\n<p>I followed with a tight heart<br \/>\nThe flight of the storks<br \/>\nCarrying the souls of babies<br \/>\nBy bombs and hunger<br \/>\nTorn from their mothers<\/p>\n<p>I was almost there<br \/>\nWhen the sky changed<\/p>\n<p>From the window of the train that carried me<br \/>\nI saw a flight of swallows pass<br \/>\nCarrying a message of Peace<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3 \/ There are places<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Where the ochres of our autumns<br \/>\nAre burns of the Sun<br \/>\nThat split the Earth<br \/>\nAnd dry the airs<br \/>\nIn this arid landscape<br \/>\nIt sometimes happens<br \/>\nThat we see crawling<br \/>\nVines of peas<br \/>\nWhen the sky is kinder<br \/>\nAnd pours onto the plains<br \/>\nPearls of white gold<br \/>\nFrom the depths of the Earth<br \/>\nPush towards the sky<br \/>\nPetals of a thousand colors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 1 \/ In the silence of the night &nbsp; In the silence of the night A cry resounded Breaking the fullness Of my sleeping dreams In the silence of the night The cry resounded Of that Kurdish mother Before the body of her battered child In the silence of the night The cries resounded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"actor":[482],"role_artiste":[],"class_list":["post-4985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creation","actor-valerie-antoine"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.1","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ar","fr","en"],"languages":{"ar":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ici-ce.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ici-ce.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ici-ce.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ici-ce.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ici-ce.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ici-ce.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ici-ce.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ici-ce.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ici-ce.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ici-ce.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"actor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ici-ce.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actor?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"role_artiste","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ici-ce.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/role_artiste?post=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}