{"id":3185,"date":"2017-06-17T10:44:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T08:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2017-06-17T10:48:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T08:48:23","slug":"homewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/homewards\/","title":{"rendered":"HOMEWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dear friends, dear readers,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I just returned from Italy where I found refuge at my favourite Como Lake to write a few new poems and to<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">launch my newest poetry book \u201cThe Ephemeral Flower of Time\u201d. Enclosed one of the new poems, I hope<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">you enjoy the reading. A poetic salute, Germain<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3186 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Imagen-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sunrise at Ithaca, picture by Germain Droogenbroodt<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>HOMEWARDS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To Liliane<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">How to return<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">to a place or a time<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">which one consciously<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">or unconsciously left behind<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">when one suddenly feels<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">how empty the hands are<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">and how yearning<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">the heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pognana, Lake Como, Italy 29.5.2016<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends, dear readers, I just returned from Italy where I found refuge at my favourite Como Lake to write a few new poems and to launch my newest poetry book \u201cThe Ephemeral Flower of Time\u201d. Enclosed one of the new poems, I hope you enjoy the reading. A poetic salute, Germain Sunrise at Ithaca, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}