Ireland



Where did that madness come from,
that irrational hysteria of subnormality,
that always coloured Ireland's history with blood
and dreadfully exaggerated tragedies,
which more often than not turned Ireland
to an isle of widows dressed in black and crying,
going on in endless sorrow over senseless sons forever,
while the witless hooligans just keep on sacrificing
lives and families and not just themselves
but innocents in countless numbers above all?
Was it that fatal Irish whisky lethally combined
with catholic fanaticism and superstition,
or that harsh Atlantic climate with incessant rains
three hundred days a year at least,
that always drove the Irish down the drain,
out of their minds and into obligatory alcoholism?
I cannot say. All I can do is cry with all those widows,
sonless mothers, families that lost their fathers
and their brothers and their children
for no good at all, as if the lunacy of violence
was reason in itself for any self-destruction.




Poetry by Christian Lanciai The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2007-09-18 at 10:36

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Christian Lanciai The PoetBay support member heart!
Of course you are right. Unfortunately, the tragedy of Ireland is what has caught the world's interest more than Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, Frederick Forsyth, Kenneth Branagh and so on...
2007-09-18


ken d williams The PoetBay support member heart!
Irland , was the 1st over seas , colenes,. Wailes the 1st of the mainland independant countrys to be crushde and colanised. Irland was made in to parts by Olerver Cronwell. Affter yet more bloody battles and masacers. He found he coukd not pay his army. So he gave them the richer parts in qulerty of soile and co. In loo of paymets due. As mostof theae were Scotish. Thear religen , being proderstant and exstream one at that. It was found bu=y sucksif guverments that a devide and rule polyasey would work just fine in the Noirth. No such devishion exsited in the south. Infackt , a proderstant was eleckted as Southern Iraland 1st presdant. Just befoe the outbreak of ww1. When it look as if the whole of Irland would be given it's independanse. Offersers of the British arey resignde thear commishons , or just left' To joine a Ulster defense to fightfor a proderstant Ulster. They trind up vlontears to fight. With the outbreke of ww1. All talk of an independat Irland when quiet. The offsersr rejoind the coulers. Scotland was in the high lands fulgol the last part of Britine to be so., almost tribul it could be saide. If you can get over the book''Culloden'' , , by john Prebble. He explaines very well the staite of asacoland and how the Highlanders were treeted by thear clan leaders and thear lords. British histiry is rich in blood. Stareted by Edward the 1st, who set aboult tuernimg England in to a power at home. That weas to lead to the bigest & most powerful empier in history bar non. All going back to the Romans. Thats another storry.

Ken D Williams
2007-09-18