Orange Turd

 Orange Turd is a bilingual limerick by Gabriel Rosenstock against the background of the hush-money trial



'Cac Oráiste!' a chan éinín ar ghéag
'Cac Oráiste!' Bhfuil fhios agat canathaobh?
             Ag tagairt a bhí an t-éan
             Don Iar-Uachtarán bréan
'Agus canfaidh mé Cac Oráiste go héag.'     

                         ~
I heard it from a wee little bird
Who tweeted, 'Turd! Turd! Orange Turd!'
      Who can say she was wrong
      To go on with her song?
'Orange Turd!' Oh, the whole thing's absurd . . .

Anthony Blinken

 

Anthony Blinken is a bilingual limerick by Limerick-born Gabriel Rosenstock

                          ~
My name it is Anthony Blinken
And lately, dear folks, I've been thinkin':
        Are we makin' things worse
        Is America a curse?
I dunno, but somethin' is stinkin'!

                ~
Ní chodlaímse rómhaith istoíche
Cloisim olagón géar goirt na gaoithe:
            In Gaza, sa Liobáin
            An t-aon phort amháin
Anthony! Go deo deo is choíche . . .            

Cabhraigh le Ciste Bhalla Mheicsiceo / Support the Mexican Wall Fund

A bilingual limerick by Gabriel Rosenstock in response to a moving photograph by the outstanding street photographer Stefano Carotenuto.

Let's work on the Mexican wall

I know ye can do it, y'all!

          Reject all those those spics

          They are nobodies! Pricks!

We're American, we gotta stand tall! 

Cabhraigh le Ciste an Bhalla

Nó beidh gach éinne ag triall ar Valhalla

             Ní mór dúinn bheith geal

             Mar a bhímse féin (seal)

Agus fanaimis mar sin, dar Allah!

Bastille

(Roger-Viollet Agency)

A bilingual limerick for Bastille Day by Limerick bilingualist Gabriel Rosenstock

Come out now, come out one and all:

To tyrants no longer in thrall!

            Your leg give a shake

             For Liberty's sake -

Come out now for Bastille Day Ball!

                       ~

Seo linn le haghaidh Lá an Bastille

Taispeánaimis dóibh ár gcuid stíl'

           An tSaoirse go deo

           Fad a mhairfimid beo

Ó Bhleá Cliath go sean-Ros a' Mhíl!

 

Luimneach /Limerick

Gabriel Rosenstock's bilingual limerick in praise of Louise Richardson, Dame Commander of the British Empire, 

appointed by the Irish Government (sic!) as Chairperson of its Consultative Forum on International Security Policy.

will Ireland stay neutral - like the Swiss

or join NATO, then go on the piss?

         it's being discussed at a Forum

         with Hibernian decorum

and the Chair -  she's a proper little Miss! *

* Dame Commander of the British Empire, Louise Richardson

Louise Richardson - Wikipedia

an bhfanfaimid ar nós na hEilvéise

nó bheith in NATO inár staicín áiféise

                 nárbh fhearr a bheith neodrach

                 a Louise, is a bheith spleodrach

 mar a bhís-se fadó ins na Déise?

                      

An Deirfiúr / The Sister

The Sister is a bilingual limerick by Limerick poet Gabriel Rosenstock in praise of Kim Jong Un's likely successor, his sister.

now look who's coming along!

it's the sister - Kim Yo-jong

        she's made of stern stuff

        and she knows how to bluff

sure she'd blow us all up for a song

féach cé tá chugainn go luath

sí Kim Yo-jong í, an deirfiúr

       tá sí dona go leor

       bean nár shil riamh aon deoir

is tá gangaid inti, is fuath

A bilingual limerick by Limerick bilingualist, Gabriel Rosenstock

The fascist Georgia Meloni

is a-speaking a lot of baloney

                 she a-shoots from the hip

                 when she a-opens her lip

me a-thinks that Meloni's a phoney

                         ~

an ceannaire nua Meloni

ag scaothaireacht a bhíonn sí i gcónaí

         ach tá Dia lena taobh

         (cén fáth? canathaobh?)

Is a cara mór, Silvia Berlusconi

 

The Future of Man / Dán an duine

 

What is the future of Man?

There's a flare-up now in Taiwan

               You think that Ukraine

                In the ass is a pain

Just wait till the shit hits the fan!

               

Don duine cad tá i ndán?

Tá suaitheadh arís sa Téaváin

                Ní galar amháin é

                Sampla na hÚcráine

Beidh an súiche a fud an bhracháin!