{"id":7064,"date":"2026-04-08T13:47:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=7064"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:04:53","slug":"826-wind-of-solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/826-wind-of-solitude\/","title":{"rendered":"826 | Wind of Solitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7065 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tyoma-300x129.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tyoma-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tyoma-200x86.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tyoma.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Painting by Tyoma<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Wind of Solitude<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What wind of solitude, cunning and strange,<br \/>\nis gusting wildly through this little night?<br \/>\nWhy does it come, relentless, galloping on,<br \/>\nand savagely strike the barren leaves of the heart?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And this radiant, tender full moon<br \/>\nthat spreads its gold from edge to edge of the sky-<br \/>\nwhy does it not send even a little light<br \/>\nto all the souls who walk alone tonight?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And the night that arrived, uncanny, at the windows,<br \/>\nwhy does it shroud them in a deathlike hush<br \/>\nand, instead of rare and holy balms for pain,<br \/>\nsend goblets brimming over with poison?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">O wind of solitude, O brimming moon,<br \/>\nand you, primordial Night, daughter of Chaos,<br \/>\ncome &#8211; soothe the lonely souls,<br \/>\ngrant them some forgetfulness, and yet some hope.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Panagiota P. Lambri<\/strong>, Greece<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting by Tyoma Wind of Solitude &nbsp; What wind of solitude, cunning and strange, is gusting wildly through this little night? Why does it come, relentless, galloping on, and savagely strike the barren leaves of the heart? And this radiant, tender full moon that spreads its gold from edge to edge of the sky- why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7065,"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\/7064"}],"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=7064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7075,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions\/7075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}