"blasket" poems - Hello Poetry

When I retire in Ireland I'll be fit and sixty-five Then I'll ride the DART for free and explore the country-side I'll rent an old thatched cottage Buy a bicycle with gears Tool along Connor Pass Road Out to ****** drink some beers Eating the Irish breakfasts Drinking too much Guinness to mention Uncle Sam sends my social security I'll collect my teacher's pension Mornings I'll write a novel About my Irish sojourn A boat to Blasket Islands Some Gaelic I'll be learnin' I'll check my geneology The DART to Cork and I go Fitzpatrick's, a talented family, Doctors, fighters, writers in the know Always an ear to the music Familiar faces all around Perhaps some long lost relatives Still in Cork who could be found Yes, I'm in love with Ireland The Cliffs of Moher call to me I'll go hiking west of Doolin Rent an apartment in Dun Laoghaire (dun leary)

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Oct 14, 2015

Oct 14, 2015 at 10:59 PM UTC

terry-jordan

When I Retire in Ireland

When I retire in Ireland I'll be fit and sixty-five Then I'll ride the DART for free and explore the country-side I'll rent an old thatched cottage Buy a bicycle with gears Tool along Connor Pass Road Out to ****** drink some beers Eating the Irish breakfasts Drinking too much Guinness to mention Uncle Sam sends my social security I'll collect my teacher's pension Mornings I'll write a novel About my Irish sojourn A boat to Blasket Islands Some Gaelic I'll be learnin' I'll check my geneology The DART to Cork and I go Fitzpatrick's, a talented family, Doctors, fighters, writers in the know Always an ear to the music Familiar faces all around Perhaps some long lost relatives Still in Cork who could be found Yes, I'm in love with Ireland The Cliffs of Moher call to me I'll go hiking west of Doolin Rent an apartment in Dun Laoghaire (dun leary)

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When I retire in Ireland I'll be fit and sixty-five Then I'll ride the DART for free and explore the country-side I'll rent an old thatched cottage Buy a bicycle with gears Tool along Connor Pass Road Out to ****** drink some beers Eating the Irish breakfasts Drinking too much Guinness to mention Uncle Sam sends my Social Security I'll collect my teacher's pension Mornings I'll write a novel About my Irish sojourn A boat to Blasket Islands Some Gaelic I'll be learnin' I'll check my geneology The DART to Cork and I go Fitzpatrick's, a talented family, Doctors, fighters, writers in the know Always an ear to the music Familiar faces all around Perhaps some long lost relatives Still in Cork who could be found Yes, I'm in love with Ireland The Cliffs of Moher call to me I'll go hiking west of Doolin Rent an apartment in Dun Laoghaire (dun leary)

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Jan 8, 2018

Jan 8, 2018 at 10:04 PM UTC

terry-jordan

When I Retire in Ireland

When I retire in Ireland I'll be fit and sixty-five Then I'll ride the DART for free and explore the country-side I'll rent an old thatched cottage Buy a bicycle with gears Tool along Connor Pass Road Out to ****** drink some beers Eating the Irish breakfasts Drinking too much Guinness to mention Uncle Sam sends my Social Security I'll collect my teacher's pension Mornings I'll write a novel About my Irish sojourn A boat to Blasket Islands Some Gaelic I'll be learnin' I'll check my geneology The DART to Cork and I go Fitzpatrick's, a talented family, Doctors, fighters, writers in the know Always an ear to the music Familiar faces all around Perhaps some long lost relatives Still in Cork who could be found Yes, I'm in love with Ireland The Cliffs of Moher call to me I'll go hiking west of Doolin Rent an apartment in Dun Laoghaire (dun leary)

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When Star Wars came to film in Ireland (in County Kerry the Blasket islands) I wanted a part I wanted to be like Darth (Vader) I told them I knew the whole Star Wars Universe off by heart From Ken Kenobi's desert hideout to Hans Solo's Big Bird, the Maltese Falcon And the big chewy chap Wuzzy Bear And the lovely Princess Leah with her lovely bunned up hair I told them I could be Bard the wise old Shaman poet At least I'd be better than that old **** Yoda Well they looked at me a bit awry I thought to myself "I got a bad feeling about this" They turned me down, said maybe another time I warned them "I might turn to the Dark Side" I would have reached for a Blaster only I was already fairly plastered They started to bundle me out the door I was strugglin' and shouting "Yea Yoda Old Toadface Get your hands off me, I'm talkin' Toad here man.... I'm talkin' Toad..."

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Jul 27, 2025

Jul 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM UTC

bardo

When Star Wars came to Ireland

When Star Wars came to film in Ireland (in County Kerry the Blasket islands) I wanted a part I wanted to be like Darth (Vader) I told them I knew the whole Star Wars Universe off by heart From Ken Kenobi's desert hideout to Hans Solo's Big Bird, the Maltese Falcon And the big chewy chap Wuzzy Bear And the lovely Princess Leah with her lovely bunned up hair I told them I could be Bard the wise old Shaman poet At least I'd be better than that old **** Yoda Well they looked at me a bit awry I thought to myself "I got a bad feeling about this" They turned me down, said maybe another time I warned them "I might turn to the Dark Side" I would have reached for a Blaster only I was already fairly plastered They started to bundle me out the door I was strugglin' and shouting "Yea Yoda Old Toadface Get your hands off me, I'm talkin' Toad here man.... I'm talkin' Toad..."

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