RSH The Forward Moving Tongue – by Randall Stephen Hall

RSH. The Forward Moving Tongue.
By Randall Stephen Hall.
Including the song THE BOATYARD
From the album “Wake the Blue Sleeper”

Am I a son of the soil
Anymore or less than you?
The tongue in my head
Beds itself down.
Once a creature of the crown.
Now, a shrinking idea
Within our heads in the North.

My tongue, my tongue
A shape shifter.
A lifter of spirits.
Invoking the dead king of love.
The idea that spirits live above us
And within us.

We progress towards
The trial,  beyond Lughnasa.
Them three boys in some bloody hassle.
But the rattle snake at home, here
Is the queer auld view of ourselves.
Of our own “clattering chassis”
The upper middle classes, both up here
And down below, the Dublineers.
With no concept of Belfast
And why there is no peace
In the six county star of the North.

Is it worth having a look
At how the books get cooked?
As we get hooked on our phones
And hung out to dry, liked smoked Herring.
For the ghost of Martin
And his comrade Gerry, begin to step aside
As a new Sinn Fein emerges.
Unable to even dribble the ball
Across the goal line.

It’s all fine and good to be
The wood kern, the kern in the wood.
But please, will you ever see us?
Beyond joking about “them tight Prods”
When all you do is promote the old ideas.
Revealing your age old ability
To do bad things to ordinary people like us.
While wrapping it up in a redundant flag
And what could be a positive language.

However, will you ever be done
With calling us Brits?
Will you ever be done
With knee capping our potential love
While ham stringing our progress
To a united Ireland together
By creating a New Ireland
On our tongues, in our mouths
In our minds And in our hearts.

Shitty stereotypes is only
Good for old farts.
Words of hate only keep us apart  mate
Words of peace, healing and renewal
Is an art.

Let the phoenix rise with the Eagle.
Let the fox run with the beagle.
Let a new day break before us.
Reach the bridge
And kiss the chorus.

THE BOATYARD. song.
Listen to _9 THE BOATYARD By Randall Stephen Hall by Randall Stephen Hall on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/randall-stephen-hall/rsh-the-boatyard-demo-271024?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=1&si=9b8fae0e22d3464da9a0992191c04694&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Stephen Stiofan
www.randallstephenhallsings.com
AKA. Dangerous Banana
A northern Irish artist.