{"id":272028,"date":"2018-03-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=272028"},"modified":"2018-03-16T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:00:00","slug":"trinity-shamrock-sonnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/trinity-shamrock-sonnets\/","title":{"rendered":"A trinity of shamrock sonnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spud Spouting Sonnet on Irish Greens<\/strong><br \/>\nOn Irish people and the color green in 2018<br \/>\nwhat else then needs to be said<br \/>\nnothing but a glass of whiskey or *poteen<br \/>\nwon\u2019t hurt rolling around in your head<br \/>\nIreland\u2019s called the Emerald Isle<br \/>\nit rains a lot there, its green year round<br \/>\na red haired lass, Irish eyes that smile<br \/>\nshamrocks found on the ground abound<br \/>\nthree orange white and green stripes on the flag<br \/>\nwool on their backs, horses, potatoes in their fields<br \/>\nof independence from England Irishmen brag<br \/>\nvarious grains provide ample beer and whiskey yields<br \/>\nmusicians, writers, songs, dances, prose, poetry, verse<br \/>\nin Gaelic and English one hears blessings and curse.<\/p>\n<p><em>*poteen in Gaelic. Poitin or poicin is whiskey illicitly distilled in Ireland. It is Irish white lightening.<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>A Sonnet for Saint Patrick\u2019s Day<\/strong><br \/>\nGreen gewgaws appear in variety stores before Valentine\u2019s Day<br \/>\ngreen leprechaun t-shirts, shamrock ties, and hats sold by the score<br \/>\ngreen beer everywhere, a green river even runs in Chicago today<br \/>\nin New York\u2019s parade Irish pipes, policemen, marching bands, more<br \/>\nin Erin folks used to get up and go to morning Mass in a local church<br \/>\nthey\u2019d eat a simple meal of beef, potatoes, tea, and Irish soda bread<br \/>\nIrish will leave the big green scene commercial machine in the lurch<br \/>\nwhile from underneath ladies wool scarves peeks hair of beautiful red<br \/>\nSt. Patrick departed the Emerald Isle over fourteen hundred years ago<br \/>\nkidnapped in Scotland and brought as a slave to Erin when a young boy<br \/>\nafter six years he escaped to return to Scotland in a boat he could row<br \/>\nhe later returned to Ireland bringing Druids Irish Catholic guilt and joy<br \/>\nnow Patrick is used as an excuse for people to drink booze like a fish<br \/>\nfrom green beer to Irish whiskey dear \u2013 they all wish they were Irish.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>The Old Sot and The Old Sod<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>An Irish American reverie by Joey Leahy Connolly<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIf I should pass out think but this of me<br \/>\nthat there\u2019s a small corner of this old pub<br \/>\nthat is forever Ireland and will be<br \/>\na place you can eat some decent pub grub<br \/>\noutside is Ireland the sot dreams aware<br \/>\nhe\u2019s back there in his drunken present state<br \/>\ntasting Irish cheese eating Irish fare<br \/>\nwashed down with beer a corned beef cabbage plate<br \/>\nhe\u2019ll have one more pint drink it right away<br \/>\na drop now of Tullamore Dew no less<br \/>\ntakes him back his thought by Ireland given<br \/>\nearphones sing with harps, strings and pipes today<br \/>\nLaoise Kelly, Teada, pipes and songs by Seamus Ennis<br \/>\nhis heart at peace now in an Irish heaven.<\/p>\n<p><em>Laoise Kelly is a traditional Irish harper, Teada, which\u00a0means strings in Gaelic, is a traditional Irish band. Seamus Ennis musician, Uillean piper, 1919 -1982)<br \/>\nIn It\u2019s A Long Way To Tipperary, some readers may know this popular old Irish song. Well, it is a long ways from Tinian to County Tipperary in Ireland\u201412,080 kilometers or 7,506 miles, to be exact. The \u201cold sod\u201d is an endearing term\u00a0used by many Irish when referring to their mother country. \u201cSlainte\u201d refers to a Gaelic\u00a0wish: Slainte chuig na fir, agus go mairfidh na mna\u2019 go deo (Health to the men, and may the women live forever.). I am of Irish-American heritage. My father\u2019s side is from Galway and my mother\u2019s Conroy\/Leahy side is from Limerick and Cork.<br \/>\nHappy St. Patrick\u2019s Day 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spud Spouting Sonnet on Irish Greens On Irish people and the color green in 2018&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2901,20432,451,16018],"class_list":["post-272028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-ireland","tag-laoise-kelly","tag-scotland","tag-seamus-ennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}