{"id":6,"date":"2014-08-07T22:42:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T22:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2014-08-07T22:42:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T22:42:25","slug":"snotgreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/snotgreen\/","title":{"rendered":"Snotgreen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buck Mulligan: “The Bards noserag. A new art colour for our Irish poets:\u00a0 snotgreen. You can almost taste it, cant you?”
\nUlysses- page 5<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Deceptive, some things,\u00a0 they are not as they to the eye appear,
\nThe roses fair that grow there, they are not flowers, no but weeds…
\nGalloping horses on the beach seen there by the unglassed eye,
\nUpon obtaining spectacles seen as asses and not steeds…
\nIt takes more than a mere mane to make a lion of a cat
\nIt takes more than big horns seen to make a bull of a cow…
\nSheep when lambs seek to be seen as pets to avoid butchers knife
\nSee age causes love for them lost, but never understand how.<\/p>\n

Free spirits as they portray themselves to others\u00a0 they meet
\nAre to what they rebel against, or are seen to, but a slave,
\nHonest face, kind words, open countenance to the world offered
\nUnderstood to be lies uttered by the unscrupulous knave
\nIt takes more than just a haircut to make an Englishman
\nNo matter what the Statures of KIlkenny they did say…
\nSaxons learned to speak the Gaelic when it suited them it to speak
\nConquered Irishman learned to speak their Bearla in their own way.<\/p>\n

All men utter in their time, is what they seek as to be seen…
\nIts an image to the world that they offer, a distraction
\nThe man who signs forms with the Saxon looking and sounding name
\nIs the Gael, who hands it to the Gael of Saxon extraction.
\nThe corporate is the hippie, if not in public, is at heart
\nThe hippies heart beats beats business centered cold, clinical, hard
\nMen are steps for others to climb on as they walk to the top
\nForgotton by who for those who help others climb have regard.<\/p>\n

What is your colour, Irish bards, can others your colour taste?
\nIf it were in\u00a0 the hands handkerchief by one neath their nose seen?
\nWould it be the deepest red of the nosebleed that to the sneeze gave all?
\nOr of the nose to mean to give freedom to the snot a bright snotgreen?<\/p>\n

Glossary:<\/strong><\/address>\n
“Saxons learned to speak the Gaelic” – Old English, actually Norman French, or Norman Welsh.
\n“Bearla in their own way” – The Irish way of speaking English \/ Hiberno English and Ulster Scots
\n“Saxon looking and sounding name” – Irish had to take English versions of their name, such as Smyth for MacGabhann
\n“Gael of Saxon extraction” – Old English Catholic nationalist \/ Jacobite.
\n“Whats your colour, Irish bards?” – What are your principles – self promotion or communal solidarity?
\n“Hands handerschief” – deeds inspected in self reflection, as one looks at a tissue when their nose has been blown.
\n“Deepest red of nosebleed” – The struggle of principle which is often at personal cost.
\n“Nose too mean to give freedom to the snot” – Nasal mucus when in the nose for a long time becomes bright green, means a mean spirited person.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buck Mulligan: “The Bards noserag. A new art colour for our Irish poets:\u00a0 snotgreen. You can almost taste it, cant you?” Ulysses- page 5 Deceptive, some things,\u00a0 they are not as they to the eye appear, The roses fair that grow there, they are not flowers, no but weeds… Galloping …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[4,5],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satire","category-writing","tag-satire-on-writer","tag-writing-and-ethics","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2421,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/glam-dicenn-on-daesh\/","url_meta":{"origin":6,"position":0},"title":"Glam Dicenn on Daesh","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"17th November 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"May the strength that they seek elude them As they are blind to the faith they profess The glory sought be thwarted: their names forgotten Those who seek to be great, may they be less. 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