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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Updated: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 11:58 am

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I think, therefore I am; therefore I write, or, as Poet John Clare (1793 –1864) wrote: “I am! yet what I am none cares or knows,”

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Socialist my Arse! --- The starver hears but must ignore, being answerable, not to the many, but the few’s blood-lusting roar, strings pulled with many a pretty penny. lover he, of fascist shores, solution final, they’ve demanded, in hock to genocidal boors, with filthy lucre he’s red-handed. is there no arse he will not lick? needs must that he stand by his man; no conscience has that standing prick, who’s cheering on the killing klan! --------------------- Land and Freedom For Land and Freedom, some profess great love; No place though, in my heart for blood-drenched stones; A charnel-house, where grew an olive grove; My new-born’s crèche, built on crushed babies’ bones? What’s Freedom for? to build Apartheid’s walls? That’s good for nought, but sowing death and hate; Its harvest, cruel, to evil it’s in thrall, Brute arrogance spits in the Prophet’s face, But Onward Christian Soldiers march and sing; Remembrance Sunday sees no lessons learned, Po-faced, the cleric drones: where is death’s sting? Their silent night cloaks Truth they all have spurned. Efficiency ensures that coffins filled Mean coffers full, more blessings for those killed. -------------------- A Brahmsian Liszt How do you do, I'm Mick Adoo, I’m captain of thissh sship, Of ale, I've had a sssshhhip or two, Yes, I've got a little lizszszt, I always walk and talk like thissh When I'm Brahms and Liszt. -------------------------------------- He’s fine with the murder of babies, All hail to that regime from Hades, His morals, urinal, His solution, final, That’s why he’s as popular as rabies. -------------------- Two-Tier Racists She’s persona non grata to the two-tier mob, she just doesn’t matter; yes, “She should be shot”, is what that man said, but that’s mighty fine in Two-Tier’s head; no, justice ain’t blind for those two-tier racists, see, she’s the wrong colour, her face just ain’t English; and her friendship with that fellow called J.C, a socialist, is quite beyond the pale, it makes Two-Tiers pissed, and cry into his ale. ------------------------------------------- Sunday Prayers Yesterday was Sunday; which was our Sabbath; a walk in the park in the autumn sun. That was the day right after Shabbat, and that was the day after their Jumu’ah; Three days of prayer, of reflection and quiet. We walked in the park with family and friends in the autumn sun, then sat in the riotous children’s playground, which wasn’t so quiet for they were reciting at top decibels the age-old song, the ode to pure joy straight from pure hearts. Gran and I sat down right next to a couple with a babe in a pram whose brother and daddy were wearing a kippah. I’d a lump in my throat, a mind full of bad news, and I thought to myself: should I just say “hello, it’s a nice day isn’t it!”, but didn’t. Was it me not being British, -for once? So I held my tongue, perhaps through fear of saying something stupid such as: “isn’t it awful what’s happening over there”. There was a hole in my heart then where joy should have been; so I filled it with love, and saved it for them, and anyone else, who needed a hug. -------------------------------------- Thanksgiving for Sunday 23rd April 2023 It was an ordinary Sunday, ‘Til you turned up, then it was Fuuunday! We took along bread for feeding the birds, God’s creatures need love, both feathered and furred, We settled for the path with the steepest rake, Which leads directly down to the lake, Exercise for the legs, the heart and the mind, But to granddads’s old knees, not quite so kind! With your tiny hands, you held us both tight, Your right in gran’s left, and your left in my right, Gladly I paid for ice creams all round, I’d promised your mum, I was duty bound! We fed Canada Geese and ducks and swans, Sauntering and smiling, amongst the birdsong, Our blessings recieved in nature’s kingdom, Pure joy that we shared with our little Cherry Blossom!

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Audio entries by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Song of the Earth (19/11/2024)

Whited Sepulchres (14/11/2024)

Land and Freedom (07/10/2024)

Them uz ‘ave, will ‘ave (14/09/2024)

Nil Carborundum Sanguine Desperandum (03/09/2024)

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Red Brick Keshner

Fri 6th Dec 2024 19:57

Thanks for the link mate! I hope others will avail of it as well. Would immediately this weekend but I’m quite situationally at the moment! 😇🌷

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Larisa Rzhepishevska

Mon 21st Oct 2024 12:17

Dear, Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh! Thank you so much for the comment on my poem To Be Spoiled By Love Is Impossible. But! Would you be so kind as to correct it? You made a misprint. With warmest wishes, Latisa

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Red Brick Keshner

Thu 10th Oct 2024 11:03

Thanks for your gracious words on A Rare Edition. You may be right about that emerging republicanism there. You are much appreciated. 😊🌷🌷🙌 RBK

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Sat 14th Sep 2024 07:44

Thanks for you kind words, Rasa.
I suppose we're all familiar with it..."Telephone Voice Syndrome", whereby one speaks in a manner according to whoever one's "audience" might be: my Lancastrian sister, or Marcia Blaine of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie fame😊!

In the case of Nil Carborundum, (still a vivid memory) I was attempting to revert to the Lancashire accent I would have had at that time; that of the little boy who had never left his home town until he was 11 years old. After which, I picked up a Scottish accent, and then, on retiring, a southern French accent, after a couple of extended backpacking trips in France…a fact which my native French mature student examiner noted!

I still hear those broad Lancashire accents on a daily basis, and I’ve made an attempt to record some Lancashire dialect poetry for example, that of Edwin Waugh.

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Rasa Kabaila

Thu 12th Sep 2024 20:05

You read so beautifully Uilleam. Such a wonderful accent and speaking voice-you have- and you speak about such raw and important things. Thank you for doing this.

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