Buala Bos
blue sky, bilingual guy
Clap your hand
Hit your palm
Clap Clap Well Done!
Ar fheabhas ar fad: super fun
Ode, in indoeuropean,
to the first hand observation
Of an early evangelist climate scientist
and to that of other ‘voggers’
(veg/ vogue consuming
wannabe aesthete maker/ mothers)
‘Soul clap it’s hand and sing and louder sing...
o chestnut tree Great rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, o brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?’
Yeasty Yeats Reassemblement,
Rising Feast of Feats, pretentertainment
booming, looming, bloating, bubbling B,
basic beginner lesson in Hiberno-biology,
Being a Beta Betty the best bet yet
Bolg lán , Bolg folamh
Tummy full, tummy empty
Iompar Clainne: Carry Family
Banshee, womanfairy; bean: womanwife
Buan: everlasting; Binn: sweet melodious
Beo: alive; Beatha: living; Saol: a life
My Soul: m’anam
Béal, Beola, Bia: mouth, lips, food.
B’fhéidir: Maybe
B’éigean dom: I had to
taste, smell: Blas
Blasta: delicious
Beir Bua Agus Beannacht:
Take victory/talent And Blessings,
Pronounced Patrick, scored a hat trick
naofa: saintly/holy Fear: Man
Neamh: nirvana heaven
Don’t be late: ná bí déanach
The Ultrasound is at eleven,
O Almighty conquering Scan!
Baby bairn, born of the womb ‘broinne’
bronntanas: present, bronnadh: aWard
Brine, salty amniotic fluid
Sluice gates open
Upon the hirsute druid
Bainne milk, Bán: white
Bo glic: clever cow.
Bóthar: road, cow way
Bleeding: cur fola; bringing forth,
Beir: grab, birth
Rug: born, caught
Fáinne Geal an Lae:
Ring Bright of the Day
brilliant Baleful brooding Blob,
Blind, Dished upon a slab
Beligerent Baconesque,
A mutated gene Begob
Recurring nightmare from Kildare
It was discovered
in a grade A London lab.
Simple the solution: dilution,
Anti-coagulant of aspirin
Becoming bothered in a bed,
Had been Sticky tricky,
but now so easy
Cá bhfuil an Brí?
where is the meaning?
Beagnach: nearly
Bagairt: threatening
Baile ag Breathnú ort:
Home/Town looking at you
Bite back, beckon, bide your time
Bundled in your bunk, minus muck n slime
Braon Bailithe: boredom/weariness collected.
Ach Nascaithe: but bonded/connected.
The benefits of bodybrain and drain
beaten with a bata (stick) and rusty chain
Unsuckled, Battle on: Cogadh
moving face forWard: Bogadh ar aghaidh
Bog: move, soft, moist
Beag: small
Breac: trout, speckle, jot, sultana cake
Bróg: shoe; Broc: badger
Brídin bridled Brigid small
Breadcrumbs Break
And celebrate
All unrealised discoveries and losses,
The not yet begun ones,
the early and the late.
Angry as a briar
Sceach, Shillelagh
Whitethorn, Blackthorn
Buaircíní: Acorns
All Due dates had been nigh
Between armies of unprepared thigh
Brostaigh ort:
Hurry up, rushes
Buachaill, Cailín
Boy, Girl, and then she blushes
left behind the Miscy Mystic’s changeling:
‘Come again o human child
to the waters of the wild
with a fairy hand in hand
for the worlds more full of weeping
than you can understand’
Bereft,bounty, boorish, bickering,
imagine bygone Bystanders
breathing, bemused and snickering
A break, a brick, some brose
Yet not in fact too bruised.
More amused, relieved,
And Becoming less aggrieved,
Surprised by joy
then Cionntach: Guilt, accused
A bike, a bream, big bouncy castle
dream: brionglóid
bloody good, brilliant stuff.
Blimey, bejazus, Ballyjamesduff,
Ballnabranna, buggarall, Chernobyl,
Bantry Bay, Béal Feirste,
Belfast, Kerry Chough
Botswana, Begorrah, Galore: enough
Begotten of scented basil,
Foreign beauty of a bogger,
Beech, Birch, Bitchly babble,
Hurt/ sadness: buairt
aBortion bucket kicking blogger,
Throbbing throbber, Bjork, bezerk,
blast, bastard, bantam, cannot work
BANT (big ass no tits): below insulting
Bits ‘n PCs, Budgeons, Beowolf, bunting
Bones, Bonny, Braw, a bob or two,
buck fizz, green glas,
buí yellow, gorm blue,
dearg buile: infra-red anger
baccanale, Banlieue,
baccalaureate, Bactrian bump,
not the norm
Bobbio, fun run, forlorn
bakewell bun, booster jump
bulge, budge, bile, bilge
because I’m worth it:
Bicester clad-shod mumbling frump.
bisexual, Biden, bidet grief
abide a bastion of beef
abyss, abbess, a priory of piss,
a puss, a palid Midwife
arrive alive, it’s tough,
pressure, push, Bush, bosh,
Broadcast Braveheart,
Now a brothy batch of nosh.
Bláth flower; Boladh smell
Bravo Five Star mademoiselle
Brachan liom Tana Liom
Brachan tana suamhain
Beir Bua agus Beannacht!
Smell/ feel:blas
of fresh baby flesh
More: Breis
delicious than a nectar mess
How’s your Haemaglobin?
Tell me if you ever want to
eat your baby: Ith do bháibín
Warned the sister in law
To my disquietitude,
With exactitude she continued
You never know, Níl Fhois agat
Your reptile brain might
Léim amach: jump out
Give you a powerful clout and fright
knock you down: Leagaint síos
make you
forget: dearmad
That this young tender sprout
is not at all your pet nor prey nor
anything else: aon rud eile
But a Piece of Ealaín: Art,
So consume
Take care: Tabhair Aire
Dear friend: Cara,
Gourmande
pictiúrí álainne: pretty paintings,
prepared pulses, ab convulses
Fág anois: Leave Now
your saturated porkyheart.
Léim: Jump
Anuas ar dhroim na muice mhóir
Up onto the back of the pig big.
After all of this great exertion
The clouds then parted;
changing, swollen,
And a Man of erudition: John Tyndall
of Leighlinbridge in Carlow
(who had from Swiss glaciers consulted,
Atmospheric gas absorption rates calculated
And Carbon dioxide respirator measurers invented)
Addressing the biosphere,
Eight Billion Sapiens Strong,
beneath him:
‘Breathe out, not breeding,
Surely that is what I had said
at least a century ago?’
15/02/21