Do you have a song you could play,
For your country in Europe next May?
It’ll need a good beat,
To get folk on their feet,
And if possible sound a bit gay.
John Moynes
(EBC)
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UKIP leader Nigel Farage and newly-elected UKIP MP Douglas Carswell
A barmy ex-Tory called Doug,
Is today feeling awfully smug,
He’s once more the MP,
For Clacton-On-Sea,
And he’s UKIP’s new Westminster thug.
John Moynes
(The Times)
It’s almost that time of the year,
When Noonan bestows festive cheer,
By throwing some gold,
At the rich and the old,
And pretending he isn’t austere.
John Moynes
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
The Lingo logo (top) and the spoken word line-up, from left: Roger Hudson, Karl Parkinson, Kalle Ryan (organiser), Fergus Costello, Phil Lynch (organiser), Genevieve Healy, John Cummins (Lingo Poet Laureate), Ailish Kerr, Stephen Clare, Alicia Byrne Keane, Andre K’Por, Paul Timoney, John Moynes (‘most-read living poet in Ireland’), Erin Fornoff (organiser), Stephen James Smith (organiser), Andy Cummins
Ireand’s first ever spoken word festival.
Includes Broadsheet’s popular Parnell-chinned ‘ricksmith John Moynes (arrowed).
Kalle writes:
“Last week we launched LINGO, Ireland’s first ever spoken word festival. It will take place in three Dublin venues (Workman’s Club, Smock Alley Theatre, The Liquor Rooms) over the weekend of Oct 17, 18 & 19. We are a totally independent festival run by a small committed group of passionate people who love spoken word and want to shine a light on the remarkable scene currently happening in Ireland.
Our bumper packed programme of mellifluous meter, superb storytelling and righteous rhymes can now be downloaded directly as a PDF.
It is brimming with a host of highlights, including headline sets from All Ireland Slam Champion John Cummins, Ireland Chair of Poetry Paula Meehan and UK spoken word sensation Polarbear, The Monday Echo, Over the Edge, The Brownbread Mixtape, Nighthawks, PETTYCASH, Weekly General Meeting and more. So much more.
Tickets are also now on sale from entertainment.ie here , with individual events priced as low as €10 and day passes for only €16. Weekend passes are already sold out! The festival will even feature a performance from broadsheet’s very own lyrical limerick wordsmith John Moynes. Expect rhymes.”
I’m drawing a line, I must say,
At National Poetry Day,
‘Cause poems I fear,
Are just a bit queer,
And reading them’s totally gay.
John Moynes
Pic via Unlimited Cuts
Some scary news from the U.S.,
Where officials have had to confess,
That Ebola’s crept in.
Does the end now begin?
No. That’s the doctors’ best guess.
John Moynes
(Reuters)
It’s sounds like some terrible dream,
But the government have a new scheme,
It may seem quite odd,
But they’re taking on God,
So they want all of us to blaspheme.
John Moynes
Pic: Examiner
I’m sorry, my dear, but it’s true,
George Clooney has uttered “I do”,
If that frightful old mare,
Hadn’t managed to snare,
Him I’m certain he’d have chosen you.
John Moynes
(AP)
The guards have arrested some bloke,
Whose boat was found loaded with coke,
He said he did not,
Put the drugs on his yacht,
That it must be a practical joke.
John Moynes
Pic: Defence Forces
When phoning the queen of the land,
There’s something one must understand,
If she wants to purr,
Well that’s up to her,
But letting folk know isn’t grand.
John Moynes
(AP)