{"id":243,"date":"2006-12-29T22:59:42","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T22:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=243"},"modified":"2006-12-29T22:59:42","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T22:59:42","slug":"orange-clouds-gray-day-by-ario-mashayekhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/orange-clouds-gray-day-by-ario-mashayekhi\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;.orange clouds, gray day&#8230;.by Ario Mashayekhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>&#8230;.orange clouds, gray day<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>W<\/b>ithout a kiss,<br \/>\nlovers let go of each other\u2019s arms<br \/>\nto go their own separate way. <br \/>\nThe old man on the bench <br \/>\nshakes his head in total dismay.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> Under the fallen leaves<br \/>\nsquirrels hide the nuts<br \/>\nfrom the miscommunication trees,<\/p>\n<p>seabirds eating white bread.<\/p>\n<p>Empty promises dissolve into <br \/>\nshallow waters.<br \/>\nEmpty words fly and fall into <br \/>\nshallow graves.<br \/>\nMinutes turn into hours, <br \/>\nhours into long, long years.<\/p>\n<p>Lovers come back to the<br \/>\n neighborhood of regrets,<br \/>\n hair turned gray. <br \/>\nThe old man&#8217;s teeth rattles <br \/>\nwhen he chuckles at the <br \/>\ncycles of events. <br \/>\nOrange clouds, icy rains,<br \/>\n winter soon becomes dominant.<\/p>\n<p>There are hints of snow, <br \/>\n in every Autumn day break.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians outraged , <br \/>\nmove into closed sessions <br \/>\nand they lecture and they  talk <br \/>\nand they argue and pass resolutions on <\/p>\n<p>loneliness. <br \/>\nShrinks, dust off their couches<br \/>\nand assume their positions&#8230;.  <\/p>\n<p>Midnight bars end up into dawns, <br \/>\nlost hopes sink into empty wine glasses. <br \/>\nLadies of the night, seeking love,<br \/>\nfind themselves cuddling up with the <br \/>\nhomeless in their  frozen <br \/>\ncardboard mattresses.<br \/>\nFallen squirrels seek directions<br \/>\nfrom freshly fallen snow&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Old ladies gathering fruits from <br \/>\nancient patience trees, they drink <br \/>\nJasmine tea, when they take<br \/>\n their long, long  break.<\/p>\n<p>\nario nov 06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.orange clouds, gray day Without a kiss, lovers let go of each other\u2019s arms to go their own separate way. The old man on the bench shakes his head in total dismay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}