{"id":1361,"date":"2012-09-13T01:36:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T01:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2014-12-13T01:37:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T01:37:33","slug":"if-poets-had-consequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/if-poets-had-consequence\/","title":{"rendered":"If Poets Had Consequence"},"content":{"rendered":"
In bardic Ireland, a satire poem so destroyed a kings reputation he would have to give up his crown. The only other time he would have to do that was if bodily maimed, such as losing a limb. While more savage days, prehaps they were more honest times…<\/address>\n

If poets had consequence in these modern times
\nAll corruption would not be
\nBut they don’t, so it is and flourishes
\nAnd laugh in the face of those like me
\nWho wave mere words, not wrote the paper written
\nOr the breath in which poems and slogans are said
\nThose times when poets words to reputations mattered
\nLike the times of decency, they are dead.<\/p>\n

If moral had consequences in these modern times
\nAll corruption would not be
\nThere would be no need for protest and satire
\nFor campaigners and those like me
\nWho wave mere words, at times when in other times it would be guns
\nAnd blood flowing on the streets instead
\nOf a world weary of fighting after two world wars
\nAnd has buried too many of its dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In bardic Ireland, a satire poem so destroyed a kings reputation he would have to give up his crown. The only other time he would have to do that was if bodily maimed, such as losing a limb. While more savage days, prehaps they were more honest times… If poets …<\/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":[571,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-writing","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-lX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3929,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/reading-the-works-of-the-poets-higgins\/","url_meta":{"origin":1361,"position":0},"title":"Reading the works of the Poets Higgins","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"8th September 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I have recently become the happy owner of the book on Cloncoose poet Pat Higgins, a folk poet of the time when people wrote poetry for the joy of it as opposed to making a career out of it or a reputation, with them often being known as a poet,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/one-trick-pony\/","url_meta":{"origin":1361,"position":1},"title":"One Trick Pony","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"2nd August 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The one trick pony does its dance A dance we all enjoy But the other ponies that do more than dance It seeks and plots to destroy. 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