{"id":16881,"date":"2021-11-17T20:25:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T01:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=16881"},"modified":"2021-11-18T17:36:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:36:01","slug":"on-entering-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/11\/17\/on-entering-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"On Entering the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AW11172021-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"308\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AW11172021-8.jpg\" alt=\"On Entering the Sea (Nizar Qabbani) \nLove happened at last,\nAnd we entered God's paradise,\nSliding\nUnder the skin of the water\nLike fish.\nWe saw the precious pearls of the sea\nAnd were amazed.\nLove happened at last\nWithout intimidation\u2026with symmetry of wish.\nSo I gave\u2026and you gave\nAnd we were fair.\nIt happened with marvelous ease\nLike writing with jasmine water,\nLike a spring flowing from the ground.\" class=\"wp-image-16883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AW11172021-8.jpg 308w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AW11172021-8-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>On Entering the Sea (Nizar Qabbani) <br>Love happened at last,<br>And we entered God&#8217;s paradise,<br>Sliding<br>Under the skin of the water<br>Like fish.<br>We saw the precious pearls of the sea<br>And were amazed.<br>Love happened at last<br>Without intimidation\u2026with symmetry of wish.<br>So I gave\u2026and you gave<br>And we were fair.<br>It happened with marvelous ease<br>Like writing with jasmine water,<br>Like a spring flowing from the ground.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Beautiful! Thank you for introducing me to a lovely poem and a poet I was unfamiliar with. I look forward to reading more of Nizar Qabbani&#8217;s work. We have several books in our collection in O&#8217;Neill at call number PJ7858.A2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful! Thank you for introducing me to a lovely poem and a poet I was unfamiliar with. I look forward to reading more of Nizar Qabbani&#8217;s work. We have several books in our collection in O&#8217;Neill at call number PJ7858.A2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16893,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16881\/revisions\/16893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}