On my wall opposite the river window <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have a small painting of a woman <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With raven hair and raven eyes <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have no idea who she is <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But my father has told me<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That we are distantly related to her <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am sometimes referred to<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a Roma Poet <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which is not true <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I do come from Romani stock <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I can trace relatives of Armenian blood<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I lay no claim to be a Romani poet <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I was younger my grandfather <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Told me about the Armenian Genocide <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And asked me to promise never to visit Turkey <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until the painful truth is laid totally bare <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have had opportunities to visit this country <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mainly on business but also for pleasure <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I have honoured my promise <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This has brought me into conflict at times <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With those of little or no character <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In certain ways I would like to know <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This mysterious woman’s name <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She has a haunted look on her face <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As if she has seen too much of life <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I would like to listen to her stories <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that I might share them with others <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through my thoughts and my poetry <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On my wall opposite the river window I have a small painting of a woman With raven hair and raven eyes I have no idea who she is But my father has told me That we are distantly related to her I am sometimes referred to As a Roma Poet Which is not true I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16293,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16287\/revisions\/16293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}