{"id":4955,"date":"2021-03-28T05:32:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T04:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4955"},"modified":"2021-03-28T05:32:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T04:32:34","slug":"forests-of-concrete-grow-where-nature-made-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/forests-of-concrete-grow-where-nature-made-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Forests of Concrete Grow Where Nature Made Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4956\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4956\" style=\"width: 1895px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.celtichosting.com\/index.php\/forests-of-concrete-grow-where-nature-made-homes\/rosshill-woods-the-remnant-of-the-southern-part-of-merlin-woods\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4956\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.celtichosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rosshill-Woods-the-remnant-of-the-southern-part-of-Merlin-Woods.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1895\" height=\"729\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rosshill-Woods-the-remnant-of-the-southern-part-of-Merlin-Woods.jpg 1895w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rosshill-Woods-the-remnant-of-the-southern-part-of-Merlin-Woods-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rosshill-Woods-the-remnant-of-the-southern-part-of-Merlin-Woods-1024x394.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rosshill-Woods-the-remnant-of-the-southern-part-of-Merlin-Woods-768x295.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rosshill-Woods-the-remnant-of-the-southern-part-of-Merlin-Woods-1536x591.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rosshill-Woods-the-remnant-of-the-southern-part-of-Merlin-Woods-700x269.jpg 700w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rosshill-Woods-the-remnant-of-the-southern-part-of-Merlin-Woods-332x128.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1895px) 100vw, 1895px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosshill Woods &#8211; the remnant of the southern part of Merlin Woods<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A path led on in the peaceful woods,<br \/>\nAnd ended all too soon<br \/>\nCut in two by a wide new road<br \/>\nEach side daffodils in bloom<br \/>\nThrough which cars drove and lorries too<br \/>\nA meadow stands alone<br \/>\nYet planners draw the dreams they saw<br \/>\nWhere grass till now has grown.<\/p>\n<p>The trees, alas, most are all gone<br \/>\nA forest cleft in twain<br \/>\nThe marble taken to Belfast now<br \/>\nBut a small amount does remain.<br \/>\nDown towards the sea the swamps filled in,<br \/>\nMore houses for those with money to spare:<br \/>\nLet for profit to those who rent to never buy&#8230;<br \/>\nDreams made and broken there.<\/p>\n<p>The crows, the sparrows, the blackbirds too &#8211;<br \/>\nSee less branches to build in each passing year,<br \/>\nFor the worker too whose shrinking wage,<br \/>\nLess options to live local does appear.<br \/>\nThat is progress &#8211; cut down the trees!<br \/>\nTear up the grass and ground!<br \/>\nA city grows, and it shows&#8230;<br \/>\nProfit only, not Paradise to be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A path led on in the peaceful woods, And ended all too soon Cut in two by a wide new road Each side daffodils in bloom Through which cars drove and lorries too A meadow stands alone Yet planners draw the dreams they saw Where grass till now has grown. &#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":[109],"tags":[391,1565,4408,4409,2131],"class_list":["post-4955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-galway","tag-merlin-woods","tag-roshill-woods","tag-this-is-galway","tag-walk-in-the-woods","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1hV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2766,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/flying-a-drone-in-merlin-woods\/","url_meta":{"origin":4955,"position":0},"title":"Flying a Drone in Merlin Woods","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"27th May 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Flying a drone in the Merlin Woods in Galway today, I thought of when I watched the movie \"Eye in the Sky\" a few weeks back and how folk fear drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan and such places... 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Trees planted in vision to be grown Among his descendants to be walked He could not have seen the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Gander Around Galway&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Gander Around Galway","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/travel-poems\/gander-around-galway\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2245,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/plotting-a-duel-in-merlin-woods\/","url_meta":{"origin":4955,"position":2},"title":"Plotting a Duel in Merlin Woods","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"3rd September 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Merlin Woods in a wood near where I live. A hospital is there now, and the wood is a public park. However, in days gone by, it is where duels were fought and scores settled. 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