{"id":446,"date":"2013-03-02T20:20:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T20:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2014-09-02T20:22:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T20:22:30","slug":"bringing-in-the-wasted-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/bringing-in-the-wasted-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing In the Wasted Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"A
Threshing day in Ireland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\n
Ireland has been wasteful as a state of her resources, the most valuable of which is her young people, which she on their coming of age have fled to other nations to make their living, having non at home due to the economic crises caused by the collapse of the property and banking sectors<\/em><\/strong>.
\nSatire on “The Gathering”, a cynical exercise to bring back the Irish diaspora… not for the love of them, but for economic gain.<\/h6>\n

A direct rip off of Scotland’s “The Homecoming”, it has been taken to heart and made their own by communities right across Ireland.<\/p>\n

If our government wanted to make it for the people, why do they not abolish the hated airline travel taxes for the duration?<\/p>\n

Maybe VAT on accommodation and souvenir goods? If all that and more was done it would not ring as hollow as it does.<\/p>\n

That is not to say we do not support the excellent efforts being put in by local committees across the country including here in Tullamore which are organising it locally for the right reasons.” Whatever the cash hungry reasons that the government came up with for the year long festival, the communities across the country are truly making it a Peoples Festival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The farmer wasteful of his crop
\nThe remains of is surveyed
\nWithered, battered by wind and rain
\nPathetically there displayed.
\nHe called his neighbours for a threshing
\nAs he walked its borders realized
\nHalf his crop beyond his hedges had flown
\nFrom at sowing casting too wide.He stood there as if a master,
\nPointed at his crop, a wasted yield…
\nAnd told his neighbours to harvest his grain,
\nThat is growing in their field.
\nTo harvest his crop in their field,
\nThis they declined to do,
\nThough the seed was his, the crop was theirs…
\nLet him his wasteful scattering on sowing rue.<\/p>\n

But he proceeded to plead in vain,
\nSo a deal for him they planned,
\nHe could harvest the plants that grew from his seed
\nAs long as in their fields they did not stand.
\nThe winters rains came in their time,
\nCod and hard the wind it blew
\nAs damp destroyed the crop the farmer harvested
\nAs it rotted in his stores too.<\/p>\n

A hungry winter to spring gave way,
\nHis lesson was well learned,
\nBut alas no seed had he now to plant
\nTo apply the lesson hard earned.
\nTheir would be no trashing that year
\nNo, and none for many after,
\nAs his neighbours got him to help them at theirs
\nEchoing in his ears their mocking laughter!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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