{"id":939,"date":"2012-04-05T17:06:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T17:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=939"},"modified":"2014-10-25T17:08:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T17:08:29","slug":"ommmmmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/ommmmmm\/","title":{"rendered":"Ommmmmm!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chanting Ommmmmm! in the Four Knocks in Naul, I though to myself as a Catholic was I breaking the first commandment, false Gods and all that, but thought to myself that maybe God as we know him, and as Buddhists know him may be one and same, seen though different eyes, and He is unknowable, so I joined in regardless, and wrote this poem as a result.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Poets<\/a>
Poets in the Four Knocks, Naul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Five folk chanted a sound, a word some say
\nWas the word spoken, at the dawn of time
\nAnd we say the word, unspecified was the beginning
\nBut that is others beliefs, not mine,
\nI said a silent prayer, of my faith
\nBut in the chanting, I still joined in,
\nFor the craic, or as a form of prayer I don’t know
\nAnd though of a false God, I don’t think it a sin
\nThe spirits did not answer – we were in their world
\nThe resting place of those who had walked before
\nAnd a lady lamented that the bones and ash were gone
\nAnd were not allowed to rest in peace anymore
\nBut if their faith is true and not mine
\nHer fretting may have been but a fuss
\nThose spirits could be alive – reincarnated
\nHell, one of them, it could have been one of us!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chanting Ommmmmm! in the Four Knocks in Naul, I though to myself as a Catholic was I breaking the first commandment, false Gods and all that, but thought to myself that maybe God as we know him, and as Buddhists know him may be one and same, seen though different …<\/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":[256],"tags":[1028,259,1122,1120,1123,1121],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-heritage","tag-dublin","tag-four-knocks","tag-naul","tag-ommmm","tag-passage-grave","tag-spirits","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7EI4f-ommmmmm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1913,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/chapbook-collected-its-off-to-body-and-soul-we-go\/","url_meta":{"origin":939,"position":0},"title":"Chapbook Collected – its off to Body and Soul we go!","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"18th June 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Get it from Kindle - save the paper and the planet! 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