{"id":146,"date":"2014-06-10T05:35:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T05:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2014-08-10T05:40:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T05:40:53","slug":"walking-by-swans-at-lough-sallagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/walking-by-swans-at-lough-sallagh\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking by Swans at Lough Sallagh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/St_vwekfdZo?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As if applause, a clap clap clap<br \/>\nEchos the evening air<br \/>\nAs I walk past spectators<br \/>\nAnd yet, there&#8217;s no-one there.<\/p>\n<p>It is no ghostly apparition<br \/>\nOf which these lands are famed<br \/>\nBut mother natures creatures<br \/>\nWild and free, swans&#8230; untamed.<\/p>\n<p>Their wings slap against the surface<br \/>\nAs to the sky take flight<br \/>\nI, a walker watches in wonder,<br \/>\nThey soar high, out of sight.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what they think of us,<br \/>\nAs we work and worry in our homes&#8230;<br \/>\nI wonder what occupies their mind,<br \/>\nUnlike fools like me, its not writing poems!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1262px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Swans-swim-on-Lough-Sallagh-at-Ballinamuck-in-Longford.jpg\" alt=\"Lough Sallagh in Longford. (c) Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh 2013\" width=\"1262\" height=\"377\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lough Sallagh in Longford. (c) Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if applause, a clap clap clap Echos the evening air As I walk past spectators And yet, there&#8217;s no-one there. It is no ghostly apparition Of which these lands are famed But mother natures creatures Wild and free, swans&#8230; untamed. Their wings slap against the surface As to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[109,232,23,6,90],"tags":[231,229,230],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-nature-2","category-north-longford","category-video-poetry","category-walking-verses","tag-fishing-lakes-in-longford","tag-lugh-sallagh","tag-northlongford-lakes","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-2m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":466,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/double-date-for-tullamore-rhymers-club-mike-denver-support-and-scene-of-the-rhyme\/","url_meta":{"origin":146,"position":0},"title":"Double Date for Tullamore Rhymers Club &#8211; Mike Denver Support and &#8220;Scene of the Rhyme&#8221;","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"28th March 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"As is to be expected, the Tullamore Rhymers Club took it in their stride - a double date of poetry inside a few short hours. 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