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[chris d]

Might come round full circle. Colin Faz was at it back in the day too.

The exuberance of youth.

 

[Unicron]

They're right about Paddy Kavenagh though. Good poems.

 

[ann post]

They're right about Paddy Kavenagh though. Good poems.

Wow they should like decide whats on the leaving cert that everyone in the country does or something for this outstanding discovery of a fringe artist.

 

[seanc]

ugh, Kavanagh. Thanks for bringing up those memories.

 

[Unicron]

Wow they should like decide whats on the leaving cert that everyone in the country does or something for this outstanding discovery of a fringe artist.

Apparently he's off the syllabus these days so maybe they are bringing the pride of Monaghan back to the youth.

I see that Brendan Kennelly has been added, his brother taught me English in 4th and 5th year, and used to like telling us stories of Kavanagh being a bollocks but he was clearly a fan, I wonder how he took his big brother replacing him.

 

[egg_]

They're right about Paddy Kavenagh though. Good poems.

He was my favourite poet for the leaving - him and the Kubla Khan guy, what was his name? Ah Coleridge.

Fucking Raglan Road though. I used to love that song, and sing it, but now I can't get past the outrageous narcissism of the thing

When the angel woos the clay/He'd lose his wings at the dawn of day

Like he's the angel, and this girl 20 years younger than him that he's mooning after is the clay. Fuck's sake Paddy, cop yourself on

I had the idea to rewrite the lyrics from the woman's perspective - get some young wan to sing it, would defo be a hit in Ireland. Haven't got anywhere with it yet though, his poetry is just too fucking good to go up against

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I had the idea to rewrite the lyrics from the woman's perspective - get some young wan to sing it, would defo be a hit in Ireland. Haven't got anywhere with it yet though, his poetry is just too fucking good to go up against

I was working on more or less the same thing with my significantly younger than me ex. Then she dumped my ass so I am the fucking angel. Stupid sexy clay.

 

[Unicron]

He was my favourite poet for the leaving - him and the Kubla Khan guy, what was his name? Ah Coleridge.

Fucking Raglan Road though. I used to love that song, and sing it, but now I can't get past the outrageous narcissism of the thing


Like he's the angel, and this girl 20 years younger than him that he's mooning after is the clay. Fuck's sake Paddy, cop yourself on

I had the idea to rewrite the lyrics from the woman's perspective - get some young wan to sing it, would defo be a hit in Ireland. Haven't got anywhere with it yet though, his poetry is just too fucking good to go up against

Whole load of freemasonic language an imagery in that poem that never seems to be discussed.

I gave her gifts of the mind, I gave her the secret sign
That's known to the artists who have known the true gods of sound and stone
And word and tint without stint for I gave her poems to say
With her own name there and her own dark hair like clouds over fields of May

Pretty obvious.

You'd have to know it to see it.

 

[ann post]

Wait is someone on this forum not a freemason

@admin

 

[Unicron]

Wait is someone on this forum not a freemason

@admin

Gorillas mot as scare now is a shibboleth.

 

[Unicron]

Gorillas mot as scare now is a shibboleth.

I post that as a joke but I did once say it to someone who I suspected of being an old thumped person as they had a pretty distinctive first name.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I post that as a joke but I did once say it to someone who I suspected of being an old thumped person as they had a pretty distinctive first name.

I threatened to use the phrase in my best man's speech for another Thumpeder. Thankfully common sense prevailed.

 

[seanc]

gorillas mot as scare now.

 

[egg_]

Whole load of freemasonic language an imagery in that poem that never seems to be discussed.

Whoa! I never knew any of that ... considered joining the masons once just out of curiosity, but their only condition of entry is you have to believe in a higher power, and it seemed like bad form to pretend that I did

 

[Unicron]

Whoa! I never knew any of that ... considered joining the masons once just out of curiosity, but their only condition of entry is you have to believe in a higher power, and it seemed like bad form to pretend that I did

and be a man (of good standing in your community). But apparently not hard to get in to a lodge in Ireland.

 

[egg_]

And word and tint without stint

Yes! Most people in pubs these days sing "I did not stint" but that's not how I remember it

 

[Unicron]

Yes! Most people in pubs these days sing "I did not stint" but that's not how I remember it

It's probably an easier metre to sing the did not way.

 

[egg_]

"without stint" is way better though, as poetry