{"id":79,"date":"2014-05-28T12:45:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T12:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2014-08-08T12:48:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T12:48:03","slug":"lest-a-man-fall-foul-of-the-midnight-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/lest-a-man-fall-foul-of-the-midnight-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Lest a Man Fall Foul of the Midnight Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/The-Midnight-Court-Pauline-Bewick-300x240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/The-Midnight-Court-Pauline-Bewick-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"The-Midnight-Court-Pauline-Bewick-300x240\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Background \u2013 on reading the satirical Aisling poem \u201cThe Midnight Court\u201d by Brian Merriman, I thought how I would fare if so summonsed, being a bachelor over 30 and never being known as a Casanova! <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lest a man fall foul of the Midnight Court,<br \/>\nLet him watch where we walks, not by Fairy Fort<br \/>\nLet him the wailings of maidens beware,<br \/>\nLet him ignore her bidding to follow here where<br \/>\nHer desires on him can be released<br \/>\nLest they not be the kind that could anger a priest<br \/>\nFor being the temptress, looking so fair<br \/>\nMay turn out to be the Caoileach who will lead him there<br \/>\nTo be put on trial, be judged and condemned<br \/>\nBy the women of Ireland, who flay him to the end<br \/>\nOf his life &#8211; and a horrid as such may seem<br \/>\nThe true horror is that he may not wake, this not being a dream!<br \/>\nOh I the bard,would find it hard to prove my worth<br \/>\nShould I be summoned before the midnight Court!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background \u2013 on reading the satirical Aisling poem \u201cThe Midnight Court\u201d by Brian Merriman, I thought how I would fare if so summonsed, being a bachelor over 30 and never being known as a Casanova! Lest a man fall foul of the Midnight Court, Let him watch where we walks, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[76,145],"tags":[149,146,148,147],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folklore-and-legend","category-love-poems","tag-affairs-of-the-heart","tag-midnight-court","tag-poems-on-love","tag-poetic-response-to-brian-merrimans-midnight-court","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1546,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/she-walks-not-the-paths-i-find-familiar\/","url_meta":{"origin":79,"position":0},"title":"She Walks Not the Paths I Find Familiar","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"18th March 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"She walks not the paths I find familiar Underfoot clear ground and sound stone That I have walked heretofor in life Foot worn slabs trod often and alone. 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