{"id":4652,"date":"2020-04-03T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T06:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2020-04-03T01:32:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T00:32:37","slug":"idle-thoughts-lough-atalia-walk-during-covid-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/idle-thoughts-lough-atalia-walk-during-covid-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Idle Thoughts &#8211; Lough Atalia Walk During COVID Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4654\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.celtichosting.com\/?attachment_id=4654\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4654\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.celtichosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Holy-Well-at-Lough-Atalia-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"Holy Well at Lough Atalia\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Holy-Well-at-Lough-Atalia-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Holy-Well-at-Lough-Atalia-1024x467.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Holy-Well-at-Lough-Atalia-768x350.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Holy-Well-at-Lough-Atalia-1536x700.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Holy-Well-at-Lough-Atalia-2048x934.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Holy-Well-at-Lough-Atalia-700x319.jpg 700w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Holy-Well-at-Lough-Atalia-332x151.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holy Well at Lough Atalia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Every street is a skateboard park<br \/>\nThe cars no longer rule<br \/>\nThe teenagers whizz in their own odd way past<br \/>\nThere is no college or school.<\/p>\n<p>There are no traffic jams on the roads<br \/>\nWhat is there whizzes by&#8230;<br \/>\nThe worries of the last months forgotten:<br \/>\nEpidemic the reason why&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Theres a votive ribbon on the Cross<br \/>\nAt Lough Atalia Holy Well<br \/>\nThe faiths still alive though some say its gone<br \/>\nLittle things like this, truth tell.<\/p>\n<p>Will this make us as better folk?<br \/>\nI wish to God it would&#8230;<br \/>\nBut we have been through worse, turned out as bad&#8230;<br \/>\nNot improved live we could&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What if we were to better plan<br \/>\nEverywhere and everything we do,<br \/>\nWe could make this city flow better<br \/>\nWhen this COVID thing is through&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We only take the car out<br \/>\nWhen and where there is actual need<br \/>\nNot like before with laziness<br \/>\nConvenience for our own selfish greed<\/p>\n<p>What if we were to plan for the common good:<br \/>\nNot profit for its sake&#8230;<br \/>\nWe ask what we need and little more,<br \/>\nNot like before, when it was all take and take&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We are but men and sinners<br \/>\nThe truth we wont deny&#8230;<br \/>\nBut there is faith and good folk<br \/>\nI see a future, and thats why!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every street is a skateboard park The cars no longer rule The teenagers whizz in their own odd way past There is no college or school. There are no traffic jams on the roads What is there whizzes by&#8230; The worries of the last months forgotten: Epidemic the reason why&#8230; &#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":[55],"tags":[4279,4278,4280,391,2345],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","tag-covid","tag-covid19","tag-epidemic","tag-galway","tag-ireland","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1d2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4672,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/moneenageisha-harbour-lough-atalia\/","url_meta":{"origin":4652,"position":0},"title":"Moneenageisha Harbour, Lough Atalia","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"1st May 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"No-one comes here now with currachs Rowed by men old and young Bringing the turf to and from the islands Serenaded by the Gaelic tongue That itself is rarely spoken As the cars whizz on by Progress, and the endless march of time Blithely given as the reasons why... https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LongfordWriters\/videos\/925568797901530\/\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Longford Writers Group&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Longford Writers Group","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/writers\/longford-writers-group\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3737,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/walking-among-a-host-of-faded-daffodils-at-lough-atalia\/","url_meta":{"origin":4652,"position":1},"title":"Walking Among a Host of Faded Daffodils at Lough Atalia","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"18th May 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"And all at once I saw a crowd \/ A host of dark yellow wilted daffodils... 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