{"id":3742,"date":"2017-05-25T21:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T20:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2017-05-25T21:55:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T20:55:17","slug":"when-words-fail-silence-speaks-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/when-words-fail-silence-speaks-best\/","title":{"rendered":"When Words Fail, Silence Speaks Best"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Manchester<\/p>\n

The war hawks screamed
\n“Where are your words
\nNow that ours have fallen?”<\/p>\n

But silence spoke loudest
\nA simple prayer
\nOf grief and understanding. <\/p>\n

A prayer for peace in a time to come
\nWe have been here before.<\/p>\n

As long as war and conflicts last
\nIt shall too stalk our shore.<\/p>\n

Let this not stir in the hearts of man
\nHatred for many because of the few.<\/p>\n

Because evil wins through their sins
\nBecause they want you to.<\/p>\n

So tonight we say our prayers
\nIn chants or contemplation
\nFor Manchester dead and for those names unknown, unsaid
\nWho died in other nations.<\/p>\n

A mere poet stumbles in and out of rhyme
\nFor like the world, is stunned,
\nBut not defeated by this crime.<\/p>\n

World leaders, deposed the despots
\nWho kept theses genies in the bottle
\nSmashed for oil and profit and power
\nThat can never again be capped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The war hawks screamed “Where are your words Now that ours have fallen?” But silence spoke loudest A simple prayer Of grief and understanding. A prayer for peace in a time to come We have been here before. As long as war and conflicts last It shall too stalk our …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[3647,120,31],"tags":[3649,3651,1804,3650,3648],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libya","category-non-rhyming-poems","category-war-on-terror","tag-ariana-grande","tag-ghadaffi","tag-libya","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-bombing","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Ym","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4170,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/lusmagh-and-ireland-remember-those-who-died-for-ireland\/","url_meta":{"origin":3742,"position":0},"title":"Lusmagh and Ireland Remember Those Who Died for Ireland","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"11th November 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Manchester Martyrs Commemoration 26th November 2017, Birr, Co Offaly 150th anniversary That Lusmagh man, brave as they come As are the stock from where he was from They set their prisoners for to free On the streets on Manchester city Fate, as she does, dealt a cruel hand The constable\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Irelands Wars"","block_context":{"text":"Irelands Wars","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/irelands-wars\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Manchester Martyrs - Let Us Remember Them","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/23456632_10213478114881779_3426489592661376227_o-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/23456632_10213478114881779_3426489592661376227_o-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/23456632_10213478114881779_3426489592661376227_o-1024x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2806,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/her-voice-silenced-her-song-in-chorus-louder-we-will-sing\/","url_meta":{"origin":3742,"position":1},"title":"Her Voice Silenced, Her Song in Chorus Louder We Will Sing – Jo Cox tribute","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"18th June 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\"These children have been exposed to things no child should ever witness and I know I personally would risk life and limb to get my two precious babies out of that hell-hole.\" ~ Jo Cox, RIP No mere words suffice For a mother slain Just a thought and prayer aught\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Civil Rights"","block_context":{"text":"Civil Rights","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/civil-rights\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Jo Cox MP RIP","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Jo-Cox-MP-RIP.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Jo-Cox-MP-RIP.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Jo-Cox-MP-RIP.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Jo-Cox-MP-RIP.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Jo-Cox-MP-RIP.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1709,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/forgotten-famine-in-a-free-state\/","url_meta":{"origin":3742,"position":2},"title":"Forgotten Famine in a Free State","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"13th May 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"1916 - A Broken Dream by 1926 The forgotten famine, the Spailpin Fanach decimated, never in the history books, the forgotten declaration of 1916, was it for that that those men and O'Leary died? 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