{"id":180,"date":"2025-04-16T23:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T23:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/?page_id=180"},"modified":"2025-04-24T00:09:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T00:09:33","slug":"hymn-to-the-dove","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/poetry\/hymn-to-the-dove\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymn to the Dove"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ayaan Fahad<\/span><\/p>\n

Burn your insights,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dim the city\u2019s lights\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Where puddles reflect my frights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Where the crowd dismisses the stagnant water.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A pitch consumes me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Flee to frosty woods\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

to die on an unimportant hill.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And sing to love\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sing to the squirrel in the tree,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Write to the dove\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ask how she broke free.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Live not to be buried on a mountain,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But a hill uninhibited.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Free spirited.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You may have lost all\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But the woods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Butterflies enthrall,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The bird broods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Man broods too,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Menacingly; corrupting words,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maliciously; corrupting worlds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So I sit in the forest free,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Needing no man\u2019s plagued honesty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to the strum of a guitar,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The hum of a shooting star.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Intoxicate on nature\u2019s blissful qualia,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Slip into rasasvadic<\/i> reveries,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Intertwined with the trees,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One with the azure sky\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sway to the creek\u2019s lullaby.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bathe in gold,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Apricity\u2019s descend from heaven,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Flow along the December breeze,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let the soil meet your knees\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By this elysian\u2019s amaranthine awe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Till the frost melts on your skin,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Forgetting to bite,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As you dissolve in sunlight,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One with the earth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ayaan Fahad Burn your insights,\u00a0 Dim the city\u2019s lights\u00a0 Where puddles reflect my frights.\u00a0 Where the crowd dismisses the stagnant water.\u00a0 A pitch consumes me.\u00a0 \u00a0 Flee to frosty woods\u00a0 to die on an unimportant hill.\u00a0 And sing to love\u00a0 Sing to the squirrel in the tree,\u00a0 Write to the dove\u00a0 Ask how she… Continue Reading Hymn to the Dove<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_theme","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions\/253"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}