{"id":3815,"date":"2018-05-01T11:36:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T10:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2018-05-01T11:39:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T10:39:37","slug":"more-poetry-from-chris-thackaberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=3815","title":{"rendered":"More Poetry from Chris Thackaberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Chris-Thackaberry1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3817\" title=\"Chris Thackaberry\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Chris-Thackaberry1-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Chris-Thackaberry1-297x300.jpg 297w, http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Chris-Thackaberry1-1015x1024.jpg 1015w, http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Chris-Thackaberry1.jpg 1027w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Chris Thackaberry is Dublin born and bred in the North Inner City.\u00a0 Past Master of Dublin &amp; Wicklow LOL 1313 and former Hon. Sec Manager Dublin Conservative Club. Chris is living in Belfast for over 5 Years and he is a Progressive Unionist Party political activist in East Belfast.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">&#8220;Nothing better than a few jars in a pub with no TV or tourists to melt ya head; talking history and Labour politics, anything and everything and out of that and a life lived. Comes words and thoughts. These 12th of July poems are part of a collection of thoughts scribbled down from 1995 to present&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mini 12th 1st July<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">July ladies My Lady&#8217;s Road<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blonde cheers of loyalty\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">under a siege of flags<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">double stitched for strength.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Against crimson orange sky<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">blue wicked girl skips a curb<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">wee man in tow &#8211; tin drum in hand<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">reaches out to meet mine. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">12th JULY 1998<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Elijah&#8217;s call for biblical barbarity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Three kidder &#8211; ablaze\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">between towers of silence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bearing thy old suit\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">among sleeping masters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You take rest &#8211; unsettled<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">stranger &#8211; with fraternal hand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">WEEP<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Upon this unholy alter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">of flesh of flesh- blood and bone.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" ><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\"); var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_counters_lang=\"en_US\";var hupso_title_t=\"More Poetry from Chris Thackaberry\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Thackaberry is Dublin born and bred in the North Inner City.\u00a0 Past Master of Dublin &amp; Wicklow LOL 1313 and former Hon. 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