{"id":6129,"date":"2023-06-15T20:05:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2023-07-07T08:36:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T09:36:41","slug":"761-i-tremble-like-a-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/761-i-tremble-like-a-leaf\/","title":{"rendered":"761 |  I TREMBLE LIKE A LEAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/coquelicots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Poem for Mother\u2019s Day<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I TREMBLE LIKE A LEAF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It\u2019s happening very often, every day,<br \/>\nthat nostalgia knocks on my anima<br \/>\nand after a call on the cell phone<br \/>\nit seems as if you speak to me, Mother:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cSweetheart, get well dressed, it\u2019s cold,<br \/>\ndon\u2019t get tired, take care of yourself!\u201d<br \/>\nI feel protected, don\u2019t have any fears,<br \/>\nI\u2019m changed into a child by her voice &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My mother can no longer return<br \/>\nand I can\u2019t breathe; I feel weak, alone,<br \/>\nshe cannot caress me with her glance,<br \/>\nher affection cannot save me anymore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No one else can replace her in my heart,<br \/>\nshe\u2019s gone, has gone, has gone forever,<br \/>\nwe can\u2019t divide a teardrop into two,<br \/>\ncan\u2019t share joy, happiness together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I live always this very strange sensation,<br \/>\nI wait, as I tremble like an autumn leaf,<br \/>\nafter every ring of the cell phone, Mother,<br \/>\nyour voice will caress me like a breeze.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Irma Kurti<\/strong>, Albania-Italia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">from \u201cYour image between my fingers \u2013 <em>Tu imagen entre mis dedos<\/em>\u201d<br \/>\nIndependently Poetry, 2023 Chile<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem for Mother\u2019s Day \u00a0 I TREMBLE LIKE A LEAF It\u2019s happening very often, every day, that nostalgia knocks on my anima and after a call on the cell phone it seems as if you speak to me, Mother: \u201cSweetheart, get well dressed, it\u2019s cold, don\u2019t get tired, take care of yourself!\u201d I feel protected, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/6129"}],"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=6129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6196,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions\/6196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}