{"id":2613,"date":"2016-03-27T06:40:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T06:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2016-03-27T06:42:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T06:42:13","slug":"no-dancing-sun-this-easter-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/no-dancing-sun-this-easter-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"No Dancing Sun This Easter Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dawn at Ballybrit this Easter Morning – the sun is not dancing in the sky but hidden behind clouds. There is a Longford tradition – referred to in my poem of two years ago “Sleeping I Did Not See the Dancing Sun<\/a><\/strong>” – that the sun dances for joy on Easter morning for the Resurrenction, only seen by those who have true faith. This was my first Easter to be up so early – being at work – and it was behind cloud!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No dancing sun the Easter morning
\nAs the birds sing in the sky
\nI sleepy look out at the dawn
\nAs the clouds slowly roll by.
\nThe black gives way to a grey and blue
\nBehind which the sun fails to show
\nThat my grandfather said in the sky it dances
\nFor Easter all of those years ago.<\/p>\n

One hundred years ago now past
\nMen in Dublin sat confused
\nWho expected fighting to be
\nWondered was their plot by the British rused
\nAngered Eoin O’ Neill sent out
\nThe word no rising was there to be
\nFrom home to home the messengers went round
\nTo tenament and cottage in the country.<\/p>\n

But country folk action would see
\nWho to the city their way had made
\nA hopeless gesture to fire the blood
\nOf a nation cowed and afraid.
\nThe nation rose in time as one
\nBut for all the won compared to what they saught
\nIt was as well, we bitter write today
\nIf those men brave risen had not.<\/p>\n

Neighbour against neighbour pitched
\nFreedom or the crown: which flag?
\nThere was freedom of culture and faith here now
\nOf which any Irishman could brag.
\nThe tenants woes were settled mostly
\nBar the labourers on the farm
\nIf the landlord was known the tenant to crush
\nHe in turn gave the Spailpin the strong arm.<\/p>\n

In time brother to brother would turn
\nThe Free State whether or not to accept
\nPartition, a nightmare to all sides, imposed
\nMost of Ulster by England kept.
\nA hundred years is passed by now
\nThir land is not their own
\nThe Union Jack is the flag of Derry and Belfast
\nIn a land still not their own.<\/p>\n

The lockout and the Liverpool ships
\nAre now but a memory
\nParagraph in a childs textbook
\nWho, bored, learns in school history.
\nThose who held the chains of power
\nThey are still in command
\nThe rich held onto their cash
\nProtestant landlords gone: isnt Ireland grand!<\/p>\n

People to the roads again have took
\nAs banks take the rooves over their head
\nThe farms from beneath their feet
\nFarmers distraught, by their own hand dead.
\nThe Proclamation was only words
\nFor which all that blood was shed
\nAll we changed was the flag on the stick
\nAs James Connolly prophetically said.<\/p>\n

On a Longford hillside my grandfather stood
\nMy father told me when I was a boy
\nOn an Easter morning as tradition it was
\nTo see the sun in the sky dance with joy.
\nOnly seen by those whose faith was true
\nHe claimed it to have seen
\nFew of his kind alive today
\nThat on those fields had been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No dancing sun the Easter morning As the birds sing in the sky I sleepy look out at the dawn As the clouds slowly roll by. The black gives way to a grey and blue Behind which the sun fails to show That my grandfather said in the sky it …<\/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":[476,54,256,169,23],"tags":[2729,115,1630,2731,2730,2710,2595,42,1747],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1916-easter-rising","category-ireland","category-irish-heritage","category-myths-and-tales","category-north-longford","tag-1916-rising","tag-ballinalee","tag-catholic","tag-dancing-easter-sun","tag-dancing-sun-in-the-sky","tag-easter-rising","tag-folk-belief","tag-longford","tag-superstition","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-G9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3664,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/being-easter-sunday-will-the-sun-dance-in-the-morning\/","url_meta":{"origin":2613,"position":0},"title":"Being Easter Sunday, Will the Sun Dance in the Morning?","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"15th April 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It being Easter Sunday, At the dawn, will the sun dance? 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