{"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":"<address>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&#8230;<\/address>\n<p>If poets had consequence in these modern times<br \/>\nAll corruption would not be<br \/>\nBut they don&#8217;t, so it is and flourishes<br \/>\nAnd laugh in the face of those like me<br \/>\nWho wave mere words, not wrote the paper written<br \/>\nOr the breath in which poems and slogans are said<br \/>\nThose times when poets words to reputations mattered<br \/>\nLike the times of decency, they are dead.<\/p>\n<p>If moral had consequences in these modern times<br \/>\nAll corruption would not be<br \/>\nThere would be no need for protest and satire<br \/>\nFor campaigners and those like me<br \/>\nWho wave mere words, at times when in other times it would be guns<br \/>\nAnd blood flowing on the streets instead<br \/>\nOf a world weary of fighting after two world wars<br \/>\nAnd has buried too many of its dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; If poets &#8230;<\/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":[571,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-writing","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-lX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/one-trick-pony\/","url_meta":{"origin":1361,"position":0},"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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