Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Welcome, one and all to the annual St. Patrick's Day edition of Insomnia!
Every year I enjoy using this forum to present us - one and all - with a greeting of sorts on this, the yearly Wearing of the Green.
On with it:
HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!
THIS IS YOUR DRINK:
THIS IS YOUR DRINK'S COCKTAIL:
THIS IS YOUR DRINKING BUDDY:
THIS IS HIS DATE:
THIS IS YOUR DATE:
THIS IS YOUR OTHER DATE:
THIS IS THE OPENING BAND:
THIS IS THE HEADLINER:
THIS IS YOUR EVENT PLANNER:
THIS IS YOUR WINGMAN:
THIS IS MY MESSAGE TO YOU:
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!
Love, Joe Nolan
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