{"id":2381,"date":"2015-10-16T17:41:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2015-10-16T17:41:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:41:54","slug":"the-muses-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-muses-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Muses Caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Muses Cafe in Easons in Dublins O Connell Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Easons on Dublins O’ Connell Street has a Cafe called Muses… appropiate for a bookshop! While there, looking at pictures of now famous Irish writers on the wall some years back, I, a writer as I call myself, wondered will someday my picture hang there? I think every writer wonders of their legacy after their day… no? This is a very old verse of mine I republish on the website…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I pay, I look on their faces
\nAnd I wonder, are they proud
\nNow that they are acknowledged with
\nThe respect in life so often not allowed? <\/p>\n

And as I eat I wonder will
\nOn some far off distant day
\nMy picture, name and words shall be
\nOn a wall in the Muses Caf\u00e9? <\/p>\n

Could I reach the heights they’ve known
\nWith my offerings of poetry and prose
\nShall my name be as synonymous as theirs
\nOnly I care and only God knows <\/p>\n

Did they on a day now past
\nWonder then as I now, of their future fame
\nThe only reward that surrounds our death
\nFor anonymity is the ulimate shame <\/p>\n

As they sat and wrote with quill
\nDid they think as I: as I scribble in Biro
\nA rhyme to pass the time or record a thought
\nOf women, nature, or wonders south of Cairo? <\/p>\n

The till girl smiles, pearl white teeth with ruby lips
\nShy downward glance and snow white skin…
\nShall I from those walls of the Muses Caf\u00e9 look down
\nAs another admires another and dreams of original sin? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Easons on Dublins O’ Connell Street has a Cafe called Muses… appropiate for a bookshop! While there, looking at pictures of now famous Irish writers on the wall some years back, I, a writer as I call myself, wondered will someday my picture hang there? I think every writer wonders …<\/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":[475,90,233,3],"tags":[2502,2501,815,2281,2231],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dander-in-dublin","category-walking-verses","category-writers","category-writing","tag-after-our-time","tag-bookshop","tag-pondering-a-writers-legacy","tag-writer","tag-writers-legacy","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Cp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4315,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/musings-before-the-save-the-eight-rally-in-dublin\/","url_meta":{"origin":2381,"position":0},"title":"Musings Before the Save the Eight Rally in Dublin","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"10th March 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Writers Ireland's spirit caught Web of words in which they sought The Ireland in their eyes that aught Contemporaneously exist. 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