{"id":7076,"date":"2026-04-13T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=7076"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:22:51","slug":"827-the-seed-of-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/nl\/827-the-seed-of-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"827 | THE SEED OF POETRY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7077 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cactus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cactus.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cactus-200x256.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Seed of Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 A poem is a small seed,<br \/>\na life that breathes while waiting for light.<br \/>\nWhere the eyes and the mind rest,<br \/>\nit sprouts in joy, in love, in time and space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Where shall it be planted? Where will it grow?<br \/>\nThe moment you choose, its roots will spread.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Just as a cactus blooms even in the desert,<br \/>\na poem lives anywhere.<br \/>\nIt drifts like a light feather,<br \/>\nand flows on a gentle breeze.<br \/>\nEven within a tiny grain of sand,<br \/>\nit takes firm root in that very place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Close your eyes, and try to breathe,<br \/>\nthe whisper of poetry will seep in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Within the garden of your soul,<br \/>\nyou will see it bloom brilliantly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The power is in you, the choice is clear,<br \/>\nif you simply plant the seed, the poem will bloom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Yang Geum-hee, Korea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Golden Pen Award<br \/>\nKorean Association of World Literature<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seed of Poetry &nbsp; \u00a0 A poem is a small seed, a life that breathes while waiting for light. Where the eyes and the mind rest, it sprouts in joy, in love, in time and space. Where shall it be planted? Where will it grow? The moment you choose, its roots will spread. Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7077,"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\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7087,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions\/7087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}