{"id":2645,"date":"2016-04-13T19:24:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2016-04-13T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T19:37:07","slug":"celtic-tiger-was-not-by-poets-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/celtic-tiger-was-not-by-poets-built\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Tiger was Not By Poets Built"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“You Cant Build A House with With Words You Know” – when dissing poetry, one wise guy Chris McCromack came up with this classic clanger… to which I am duty bound to respond in verse!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You cant build a house with words, you know<\/strong>
\n– Chris McCormack<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Houses are not by words built
\nThey are by developers though
\nWho broke this country by their greed
\nNot so very long ago.<\/p>\n

Homes are by words build
\nStories and poems by firesides told
\nBuild memories and bonds between generations
\nBridge in common between young and old.<\/p>\n

So, lets build homesteads, not just houses
\nBe proud of our culture in our bars and our homes
\nFeck the begrudgers, no, not just that, but fuck them
\nLets recite to each other stories and poems!<\/p>\n

In the following review by thejournal.ie<\/strong> of a poetry slam event<\/a>, all the loolahs with their hands on backwards started to prove that they too could type, and started to diss poetry in general. One, Chris McCormack caught my attention, who I told Id quote in response, to which he replied he would “love to have his sarcasm immortalized”. Half his comments support poetry and the other half condemn it, and to be honest Im not sure which side of the fense he is one, so this is aimed more at those who condemn poetry in general than him in particular!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You cant build a house with words, you know – Chris McCormack Houses are not by words built They are by developers though Who broke this country by their greed Not so very long ago. Homes are by words build Stories and poems by firesides told Build memories and bonds …<\/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":[571,55,54,1],"tags":[987,2744,1028,2061,2745,1762,2746],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-ireland","category-uncategorized","tag-begrudgery","tag-celtic-tiger","tag-dublin","tag-events","tag-reviews","tag-spoken-word","tag-thejournal","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-GF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":945,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/no-more-she-roars-but-her-people-do-in-pain\/","url_meta":{"origin":2645,"position":0},"title":"No More She Roars, But Her People Do, In Pain","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"25th April 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"No more she roars, the Tigeress of the Celts, Who brave took on the Capitalists jungle there and won, We thought ourselves warriors on the worlds stage Each man a Financial Setanta, the battle won. 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