{"id":90,"date":"2014-04-02T12:59:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2014-08-08T13:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T13:00:37","slug":"miles-plans-expedition-to-ireland-wanderings-of-the-gael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/miles-plans-expedition-to-ireland-wanderings-of-the-gael\/","title":{"rendered":"Miles Plans Expedition to Ireland – Wanderings of the Gael"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of a series of poems drawn from the Taking of Ireland, exploring the thesems and theories of the modern day of our origions, and personalising it with family legends of ours!<\/em> <\/p>\n

Miles, leader of soldiers, fought for Pharaoh Nectonibus
\nBrave as if his son, against Ethiopian armies, risked his life,
\nPharaoh grateful, knowing a wise leader and a brave man,
\nHonoured the widower for marriage his daughter as a wife.
\nNo stranger among Egyptians, among them lived for eight years,
\nSent some of his people to the folk of skills their trades to learn
\nSo that when Egypt they left and they reached their destination
\nTheir skills they would employ and all their folk benefit from earn.
\nHe arrived back there to his kingdom Spain, where then lived his people
\nAmong unrest and war with those peoples who lived there before
\nAlso the arrival of some fierce new foreigners armies…
\nRouted all in battles fought bravely, numbered fifty, and four!<\/p>\n

For another twenty six long years, one after the other,
\nScorched land it was parched dry, little water, the people they there starved
\nWorried king, who prayed long to the Gods, looked helplessly on his people
\nBuried their dead, those alive as flesh to the bone, the hunger carved.
\nThe king, he pondered, being a great thinker, a man of knowledge,
\nThought that the Gods they were wild angry and he knew they knew best,
\nWanted to drive him and his people back to their boats on the wild seas
\nTo resume on the rough waves for the Promised Isle, their quest.
\nThe ancient prophesy of the Druid Cachear, he remembered,
\nHe, once set on a quest never was known to shirk or to fail,
\nThese folk of the sea under their king they assembled a new fleet
\nAs feet on waves to the unknown in adventure set sail.<\/p>\n

As fleets sailed west seeking the fair isle did wild winds scatter them?
\nDid some said east wash up on the shores of the land of Gaul?
\nLater reach Ireland as Clan Eoghanchta, last arrivals?
\nDid more scattered west from the mainfleet on Scotland make landfall?
\nCould this be how Kennedy is of Munster, also of Ayr
\nWhere to the wild winds of the Atlantic their castle today stands
\nBefore they came then with the English to the fields of Ulster
\nWhere they vie today with the Gael for the control of those lands?<\/p>\n

GLOSSARY<\/strong><\/p>\n

* “Cachear” – Druid who foretold of landing on a promised isle, for which they must search
\n* Nectonibus – Pharoh, who gave his daughter Scota in marraige to the widower Miles<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of a series of poems drawn from the Taking of Ireland, exploring the thesems and theories of the modern day of our origions, and personalising it with family legends of ours! Miles, leader of soldiers, fought for Pharaoh Nectonibus Brave as if his son, against Ethiopian armies, risked his …<\/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":[76,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folklore-and-legend","category-wanderings-of-the-gael","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":224,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/are-both-one-blood\/","url_meta":{"origin":90,"position":0},"title":"Are Both One Blood?","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"11th August 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Some Arabs say that Celts they were, These Berber folk who in the Maghreb live, I see few similarities to my eye\u2026 To the residents of the sands that don\u2019t forgive, Weakness of man or heart must be restrained, People must be resilient to survive - Where water is scarce,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Irish Legend"","block_context":{"text":"Irish Legend","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/ireland\/irish-legend\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Berber sands of the Pre Sahara","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Berber-Sands-in-the-Pre-Sahara.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Berber-Sands-in-the-Pre-Sahara.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Berber-Sands-in-the-Pre-Sahara.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Berber-Sands-in-the-Pre-Sahara.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1855,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/seek-the-distant-isle\/","url_meta":{"origin":90,"position":1},"title":"Seek the Distant Isle","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"9th June 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Of which was spoken the sailed to seek Many ships, families and fighting men, As generations had sailed before, They take\u00a0 to the wave again Destination is unknown Danger dire is expected Life and voyages both are a battle The rudder\u00a0 the boat directed. 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