{"id":1818,"date":"2013-11-14T21:37:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2015-06-03T21:38:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T21:38:45","slug":"matchsticks-in-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/matchsticks-in-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Matchsticks in the Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2756\" style=\"width: 1198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2756\" alt=\"Clonfert Twister seen from Banagher Hill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Clonfert-Twister-seen-from-Banagher-Hill.jpg\" width=\"1198\" height=\"291\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clonfert Twister seen from Banagher Hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mankind, and what we build,<br \/>\nIn the rage of nature, no matter how strong,<br \/>\nOr how big, but matchsticks in the wind,<br \/>\nNever set to last that long&#8230;<br \/>\nConcrete and steel, twist as if mere sticks,<br \/>\nYet Adobe, mere straw and clay, holds strong in the storm,<br \/>\nThe former built not for earthquake or wind,<br \/>\nThe latter, able to cope with design and form.<\/p>\n<p>In Clonfert, a small village few have heard of,<br \/>\nA twister came, few days before Halloween,<br \/>\nTore trees that had withstood hurricanes before,<br \/>\nSmashed them as if twigs, left a horrific scene.<br \/>\nSome folk lost their homes, glad to have kept their lives,<br \/>\nMore saved theirs by lying on the road,<br \/>\nAs around them a fury for a few minutes roared,<br \/>\nLeft a scene like a disaster zone unexplored.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the world within a few weeks,<br \/>\nA typhoon struck, on a much greater scale,<br \/>\nThan a mere twister, itself a freak of nature,<br \/>\nAcross a nation left destruction&#8217;s trail.<br \/>\nDefies description, a like over here unknown,<br \/>\nIn the tens of thousands, deaths of women, children men&#8230;<br \/>\nYet they shrug it off, while the fiercest one in a while&#8230;<br \/>\nIt happened before, it will again.<\/p>\n<p>It is life life, and is a cliche to say,<br \/>\nIts not the storm, though it may be bad,<br \/>\nIts our acceptance and resilience to bounce back<br \/>\nThat tells the power that the storm it had.<br \/>\nWhile the winds blow, in storms of nature and life,<br \/>\nThat is their moment, their horrific hour,<br \/>\nOur response, how with it we choose to deal,<br \/>\nWill deny it its lifelong power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mankind, and what we build, In the rage of nature, no matter how strong, Or how big, but matchsticks in the wind, Never set to last that long&#8230; Concrete and steel, twist as if mere sticks, Yet Adobe, mere straw and clay, holds strong in the storm, The former built &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1843,1974,391,61,1975,1973,1976,1396],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clonfert","tag-freak","tag-galway","tag-news","tag-storm","tag-tornado","tag-twister","tag-weather","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-tk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":468,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/st-bridgets-lament\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818,"position":0},"title":"St Bridgets Lament","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"20th March 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Were these wild wild winds Bridgets Lament? 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