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'With purpose and strength he came down from his tower, To snatch from a tyrant his ill-gotten power. Now the cry has gone up with a cheer from the crowd: 'Come out for the Domhnall, the best of MacLeod!'
A poem has been written for Donald Trump's inauguration that pays tribute to his Scottish ancestry and attacks Barack Obama.
The President-elect's mother, Mary Anne Macleod, is a Scot and grew up on the Hebridean island of Lewis.
The poem, which refers to snatching power from a tyrant who has ill-gotten power, was written by celebrated American poet Joseph Charles McKenzie of the Society of Classical Poets.
The poem, published in full in The Scotsman this weekend, reads as follows:
"Come out for the Domhnall, ye brave men and proud,
The scion of Torquil and best of MacLeod!
With purpose and strength he came down from his tower
To snatch from a tyrant his ill-gotten power.
Now the cry has gone up with a cheer from the crowd:
Come out for the Domhnall, the best of MacLeod!
When freedom is threatened by slaverys chains
And voices are silenced as misery reigns,
Well come out for a leader whose courage is true
Whose virtues are solid and long overdue.
For, hell never forget us, we men of the crowd
Who elected the Domhnall, the best of MacLeod!
When crippling corruption polluted our nation
And plunged our economy into stagnation,
As self-righteous rogues took the opulent office
And plump politicians reneged on their promise
The forgotten continued to form a great crowd
That defended the Domhnall, the best of MacLeod!
The Domhnalls a giver whilst others just take,
Neer gaining from that which his hands did not make.
A builder of buildings, employing good men,
Hes enriched many cities by factors of ten.
The honest and true gladly march with the crowd
Standing up for the Domhnall, the best of MacLeod!
True friend of the migrant from both far and near,
He welcomes the worthy, but guards our frontier,
Lest a murderous horde, for whom hell is the norm,
Should threaten our lives and our nation deform.
We immigrants hasten to swell the great crowd.
Coming out for the Domhnall, the best of MacLeod!
Academe now lies dead, the old order rots,
No longer policing our words and our thoughts;
Its ignorant hirelings pretending to teach
Are backward in vision, sophomoric in speech.
Now we learnèd of mind add ourselves to the crowd
That cheers on the Domhnall, the best of MacLeod!
The black man, forgotten, in poverty dying,
The poor man, the sick man, with young children crying,
The soldier abroad and the mother who waits,
The young without work or behind prison gates,
The veterans, wounded, all welcome the crowd
That fights for the Domhnall, the best of MacLeod!
Whilst hapless old harridans flapping their traps
Teach women to look and behave like us chaps,
The Domhnall defends the defenseless forlorn;
For, a womans first right is the right to be born.
Now the bonnie young lassies that fly to the crowd
Have a champion in Domhnall, the best of MacLeod!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-inauguration-poem-barack-obama-tyrant-scottish-heritage-a7530506.html
True Dough
(17,301 posts)It's entirely fitting. Would also work for his inauguration, even though it's almost a month late:
Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot
But the Grinch who lived just North of Whoville did not!
The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
But, whatever the reason, his heart or his shoes,
He stood there on Christmas Eve hating the Whos,
Staring down from his cave with a sour, Grinchy frown
At the warm lighted windows below in their town,
For he knew every Who down in Whoville beneath
Was busy now hanging a hollywho wreath.
"And they're hanging their stockings," he snarled with a sneer.
"Tomorrow is Christmas! It's practically here!"
Then he growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming,
"I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming!
For, tomorrow, I know all the Who girls and boys
Will wake bright and early. They'll rush for their toys!
And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!
There's one thing I hate! All the NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! NOISE!
MBS
(9,688 posts)jmowreader
(50,553 posts)Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot
But the Grinch, who lived just north of Who-ville...did NOT!
The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please dont ask why. You know damn well whats the reason.
Its not that his head isnt screwed on just right.
Nor that his shoes are too big or too tight.
And though the Whos claim its the biggest reason of all,
Its not that his hearts even a little bit small.
No, he was workin retail.
He worked for long hours. He worked for low pay.
He worked to take crap from the Whos every day.
He sat, head in hands. They want it all free!
They run me so hard I have no time to pee!
Theyre robbing us blind! he shouted out loud.
They wont let us out of a thousand-Who crowd!
And just to be sure our lifes made pure hell,
"they bring back things we dont even sell!
But the thing I hate worst, said the Grinch with a groan,
is Christmas itself; its way overblown.
They cut down a tree and hang torches all over it.
Them worry about fire? Not even a bit!
When the damn thing goes up in a roar and a blaze,
Thats when they serve Who-road-kill in a light Who-fruit glaze.
When the road-kill is gone they do something worse!
They join in a circle and sing dirty verse!
They sing about sex. They sing about drugs.
They sing rotten songs bout Saint Nick and his thugs!
The day I hate worst, is two days from now...
I have to stop Christmas and I think I know how!
Its all about Who-beer! he said with a grin.
And Who-wine, and Who-Scotch and Who-Bombay-gin!
The night before Christmas they meet at a pub.
They blaze up Who-joints and fill up a tub.
With Who-Purple-Jesus, and all the Whos say,
thats the only Jesus theyll need on that day.
And when they go home, I havent a fear,
Theyre so high they cant see! Theyre so drunk they cant hear!
Theyll sleep on the floor. They wont lock the door.
They wont know what happened a minute before.
So I wont need costumes or stunts or a ruse,
Ill just walk in and take all their Christmas refuse.
And thats just what he did. He strolled into their houses.
He stole the gizmos and gadgets and even the Who-mouses.
He took red balls and green lights and little silver bells,
And fancy Who-dresses and lip-sticks and hair gels.
He took all the presents, then just for a thrill
He even made off with the Who-road-kill!
He piled all that stuff in the middle of Who-square,
in hopes that the Whos soon would be there.
Theyll think its a lark but it wont be a joke.
when their whole joyous day goes up in black smoke.
With a can of Who-gas, and a Who-willie-pete,
the Whos rotten day will soon be complete.
Just then, the Grinchs Russian cousin said Nyet!
Dear Grinchski, Ive got the best idea yet!
Your Who-gas and grenades might make a big pyre,
But nothing can beat Artillery fire!
I have lots of rounds. Ive got a big gun.
Ill shell it all flat. Well have lots of fun!
The Grinch hid in a church, stood next to the light,
Turning it on would put rounds into flight.
For he knew nothing would make him feel more alive,
Than the boom and the whistle from that old two-S-five.
The morn came. The sun rose. The Whos soon appear.
Bloodshot and bleary-eyed and reeking of beer.
Then they looked on, amazed. Whys our shit in the square?
We dont remember putting it there.
Twas then that the Grinch flipped the magical switch.
Sergei Ivanov yelled, Son of a bitch!
He grabbed up the lanyard, yanked with all of his might,
And the first of five hundred rounds boomed into flight.
The first round hit a plant that made bluing.
Sergei Ivanov, what the hell are you doing?
Up fifty, left forty and fire for effect,
Unless your brain is addled with a latent defect.
The rounds hit the square. The presents went splatter.
Causing the Whos to scurry and scatter.
The Grinch marveled. Oh, what a wonderful sight! Seeing Christmas burn!
My glorious plans past the point of no return!
Just one thing to do. The Grinch lifted a pane,
So he could hear the soulful refrain
of three hundred Whos with their Christmas hearts broken,
standing there crying and sobbing and chokin.
But thats not what he heard. Nothing like it at all.
Why, it sounded like the Whos were having a ball!
They were singing. And dancing. Their hearts were a-prancing.
They brought out Who-beer and joints of Who-weed,
They made up a feast of roasted Who-sneed.
They gathered up the frag and put it in a bag,
then turned it into a giant Who-hag!
The Grinch started yelling What the hell is this?
And was showered with flowers and Who-joints and a sloppy Who-kiss.
I blew up your things to make you feel bad,
But this is the greatest day any of youve ever had.
You should be sad, but youre hipping and hopping...
The Whos said, Are you out of your mind? We get to go shopping!
Well, they pulled the Grinch out of that nice Who-ville store,
And sent him to one in Ulan-Baator.
So while youre having a nice Christmas day,
Give a thought to the clerks who helped make it that way.
They toil in long hours down in Retailer Hell,
for money that wont buy the stuff that they sell.
So dream of sugar plums and reindeer in flight,
and Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
VMA131Marine
(4,138 posts)Apparently Joseph Charles McKenzie should be much less celebrated. What other total crap has he written?
wordpix
(18,652 posts)perfect, Donald! Right? This reflects the Don exactly
MFM008
(19,805 posts).........
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)for Fuck that shit
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)Trump will probably give him a medal of freedom.
brooklynite
(94,502 posts)That said, nothing in the story suggests that this poem is part of the inaugural program.
eleny
(46,166 posts)I so hope this is a joke.
highplainsdem
(48,968 posts)attacking Hillary Clinton as a "feral queen of wrath" in honor of Trump's election:
http://classicalpoets.org/citizens-for-donald-j-trump-by-joseph-charles-mackenzie/
Chiyo-chichi
(3,578 posts)I kid you not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Independent
malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)I mean seriously, it's like something a sixth-grader might turn in for a "C" grade.
Paladin
(28,252 posts)"And bear witness to our nation, being flushed into dumpsters."
I've read better poetry than Trump's on mens'-room walls.......
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Paladin
(28,252 posts)Glad you appreciated by contribution.
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)if he ever said this, or just have him arrested.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Seriously? What the hell is wrong with these people? We are supposed to be good sports and "respect the office of the presidency" and then they go and pull shit like this?
highplainsdem
(48,968 posts)Most of that is a crazed-sounding attack on Biden for being a liberal Catholic.
And McKenzie's self-identification there as a "traditional Catholic" makes mee think he's also the troublemaker behind a very nasty website I've found some web pages condemning. More on that later...
oberliner
(58,724 posts)There seems to be some chatter about that.
highplainsdem
(48,968 posts)emulatorloo
(44,116 posts)It is just logical, right? (Sarcasm)
haele
(12,647 posts)Did someone get the extra-large box of refrigerator magnets over the holidays to write this word salad?
Blah-bla-bla, Blah-bla-bla, Blah-bla-bla, Blah-bla.
Okay, the meter and rhyme endings scan - like any halfway decent fifth grade "introduction to poetry" exercise would, but any imagery that can be teased out of this mess is bouncing all over the place like a game of dodge ball during afternoon recess - and like a recess dodge ball game, there's no point to it. Just a bunch of shallow conservative talking points pasted together higglty-pigglety with some faux "He-landers" affectation to glue it all together - with no conclusion.
Because I suspect this might be a "6am on the day it's due" throw-together effort, I'd give the author a "D". And not just because it's conservative talking points and Donald "MacLeod" (see, he couldn't even name the goon). Even if it was a poem about saving the dolphins and trees - it's a train wreck of a poem on the level of something my five-year-old grandchild would attempt.
WTF does that this whole thing mean, McKensie? What poetic vision are you leading your readers to?
You're ending this thing on on "For, a woman's first right is the right to be born - Now the bonnie young lassies that fly to the crowd - have a champion in Domhnall, the best of MacLeod!?" -
- So did you actually intend to close on what essentially can be interpreted as "You ladies need to keep your babies, and you young girls need to be accept being protected by the "Pu**y-grabber" in chief? Not some rousing "Make America Great Again" lines, or some "he will protect us all from enemies, foreign and domestic?" You end your poem on the imagery of submissive women?
Hmmm?
Or is this your version of an Onion submission?
Haele
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)The Sottish references won't be understood by Traitor Trump's supporters. They probably don't even know where Scotland is. Plus no one will buy the heroic treatment of Traitor Trump. Worst of all, the poem does not inspire me to a higher purpose. Shouldn't an inaugural speech be inspiring? This one leaves me flat, bored. bleeh
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)election victory. To wit:
A Citizen arose, and men of blood,
With wrists for necks and heads a folded fist,
Advanced against him in a scarlet flood
Of wrath, whose feral queen shrieked in their midst.
Ahem.
The Scotsman reported it, which is probably why a few other sites picked it.
BTW, if you google the 'celebrated' poet's name using quotations, you get an impressive 25 results! (And they're mostly about him being a rightwing catholic.)
VOX
(22,976 posts)Here's his website...be sure and tell him what you think!
https://mackenziepoet.com/
nolabear
(41,959 posts)I fear it's not. But I guarantee you it won't get read at the inauguration. He's freelancing.
As a fellow friend and poet said, it's doggerel as if written by an actual dog.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)The dude is in Scotland -- I doubt Trump would invite him --
I HOPE NOT.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,174 posts)And who says the short-fingered vulgarian ain't got no culture?
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,174 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,920 posts)What a lot of hot air.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)Without insulting someone else.
highplainsdem
(48,968 posts)First, see my replies above for another poem he wrote, one that attacks Hillary Clinton, and a column he wrote five years ago attacking Joe Biden.
At the end of that column McKenzie identifies himself as a traditional Catholic. He's apparently, based on my googling, not just a lower-case "traditional" Catholic, but an upper-case Traditional Catholic, a splinter group I wasn't aware of (I haven't been a Catholicc myself for decades).
I found this out via web pages that popped up about infighting in a Traditional Catholic parish, infighting during which McKenzie reportedly created a nasty website called Laypopes.com for posting "anonymous exercises in character assassination" attacking people critical of a bishop he liked.
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php?a=topic&t=9639
The reason I'm pretty certain this is the same McKenzie who wrote that atrocious poetry idol-worshipping Trump is this section of a discussion of McKenzie and his writing for Laypopes on another page of that Traditional Catholic site:
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php/Joseph-Charles-McKenzie-is-behind-Laypopescom
So this crappy poetry about Trump is written by a reactionary Catholic known for causing trouble with his writings even in his own little splinter group.
And he has, as far as I can discover, zero credibility as a poet. No real history as a poet.
highplainsdem
(48,968 posts)I'm not going to bother posting the link to it.
On it, he complains that his style of "traditional lyric poetry" has been "censored" because it clashes with elitist publishers' "Marxist-totalitarian world view," LOL. Very creative excuse for never achieving the fame he believes he deserves, since he compares himself to Yeats in that section of the website, and Shakespeare in another.
So now he's writing slavishly adoring odes to the Orange Twitler, as another bid for fame, apparently.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)In terms of self-promotion. Previously no one would have heard of him. Now the Trump crowd will become his fans.
hedda_foil
(16,372 posts)
MacLeòid Dhùn Bheagain agus Dòmhnall Mòr na Banntraich.
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MacLeòid Dhùn Bheagain air...
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Title - MacLeòid Dhùn Bheagain agus Dòmhnall Mòr na Banntraich.
Contributors - Donald Allan MacQueen
Reporters - Donald Archie MacDonald
Item Person - Dòmhnall Mòr na Banntraich
Summary - MacLeod of Dunvegan and Dòmhnall Mòr na Banntraich.
MacLeod of Dunvegan had a dispute with an Englishman while he was in Edinburgh paying his land tax. The Englishman lifted a cannon. MacLeod bet that he could find a stronger man in the islands.
He heard that Dòmhnall Mòr na Banntraich from Grimsay was very strong. He went to see him and test his strength. Dòmhnall Mòr was unwilling to leave his widowed mother and take up MacLeod's challenge. MacLeod gave his mother money to keep her until her son returned, and promised plenty more if Dòmhnall Mòr won the bet. They went to Skye where he was given the best of food to build up his strength. However, he became weaker instead. He returned to his usual diet of potatoes, shellfish and milk.
They went to Edinburgh. Dòmhnall Mòr went to have a practice on the night before the contest. He carried a cannon round the park and decided it was too light. It was filled up with stones to weigh it down. The next day, the Englishman was unable to lift it and MacLeod won the bet. He sent Dòmhnall Mòr home by packet steamer without a word of thanks, and didn't give him the money he was promised.
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Item Notes - The contributor heard this story from his father.
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oberliner
(58,724 posts)Reads like a parody.
highplainsdem
(48,968 posts)Some of them:
Joseph Charles McKenzie should have sent us each $25 dollars via square cash before he wrote that inauguration poem
I would like to state, for the record, that I, as an American, have never celebrated the poet Joseph Charles McKenzie.
Brb, have to Google "who the fuck is Joseph Charles McKenzie," because that may have been the worst thing I've read in a while.
"Celebrated American poet Joseph Charles McKenzie" LOL. PR email I got for this was hilarious.
Welp, poets won't need the ACA anymore because they all just spontaneously combusted after reading Joseph Charles McKenzie's inaugural poem.
mainer
(12,022 posts)because this is personally insulting to them.
highplainsdem
(48,968 posts)who sent out PR emails hoping someone would bite.
Initech
(100,063 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,393 posts)highplainsdem
(48,968 posts)I'd quoted one of her tweets in my reply above, but just checked her account for more context. It sounds as if the "poet" sent the poem out himself to lots of publications, and sadly the Independent took the PR email seriously.
https://twitter.com/eekshecried/status/821444776943910913
There is zero evidence at this point that this scrap of doggerel will be read aloud within 100 miles of the inauguration.
"There are things in the poem which are quite frankly shocking and offensive, in spite of its obvious literary qualities." said the PR email
There are no obvious literary qualities, nice try.
Sorry you got trolled, Independent.
tenderfoot
(8,426 posts)eom
Vinca
(50,261 posts)"So, when is someone going to drop-kick this ball of orange splooge off a rooftop and be done with it? There will be no legitimate president of the United States in 4 days.."
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,173 posts)"The Domhnall."
Yeah.
Is this story real or this some sort of prank? I smell bullshit.
highplainsdem
(48,968 posts)from someone at Salon who saw the PR email.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,173 posts)highplainsdem
(48,968 posts)The paper's readers weren't exactly impressed.
highplainsdem
(48,968 posts)Scottish ancestry,' which may well come to be seen as the Plan 9 From Outer Space of inaugural poetry"
http://wonkette.com/610540/vogon-poetry-to-dominate-trump-inauguration-you-have-been-warned
and for anyone who doesn't get the reference to Vogon poetry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogon
Perfect comparison, and I wish I'd thought of it.
Wonkette's other comments show she followed the same online tracks I did:
lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)"Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" which means McKenzie could replace Vogons as the 3rd worse poets in the galaxy.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)I expect ever last Democrat to stand up and leave in a quiet, dignified manner. I'm not kidding.
LisaM
(27,801 posts)The article I read didn't say it would be "performed" at the inauguration.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Roses are Red, FUCK YOU!
snpsmom
(676 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Not Scottish.
ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)Amongst other ugly sexist drivel.
So weird.
July
(4,750 posts)That is a sad and obvious attempt to prop up a fool. The claim that Trump (Domnhnall, blah, blah, blah) is the champion of any downtrodden people is laughable, and doubly laughable is the fear of women expressed at the end of this "poem."
VOX
(22,976 posts)And I say that having mostly Scottish ancestry myself. Makes my enduring Drumpf a bit heavier load to haul.
MerchantofLight
(1 post)The Best of MacLeod
By Joseph Charles McKenzie
Translated into Reality by Harrison Max Pfingsten
Come out of the closet, ye racist and proud
The son of a slum lord and girl from MacLeod!
So pompous and smug he came down from his tower
To pull down that uppity black man from power
Now the cry has gone up from the lynch mob (read crowd)
Come out for Domhnall, the bane of MacLeod!
When good ol boys cannot say nigger no more
Nor call gay guys faggots, or call women whores
Well stand for the man who displays no restraint
And giggle as liberals go pale and faint
But hell soon forget us, we men of the crowd
Who elected the Dohmnall, the shame of MacLeod!
Dohmnalls a corrupter by his own confession
Who gorged on the broken dreams of the recession
As self-righteous rogues played the game of obstruction
Used the threat of default to control reproduction
We dupes, who elected them, formed a great crowd
That defended the Domhnall, the curse of MacLeod
The Domhnalls a sheister, a con man, a fake
Neer paying the glaziers for windows they make
Nor the builders of buildings, or those of that sort
Knowing his lawyers can beat them in court
The class that he screws blithely joins with the crowd
Standing up for the Domhnall, the worst of MacLeod
True friend of the migrant, as long as hes white
For Domhnall knows colored folk fill us with fright
Those Muslims are dangrus, we dont want them here
Theyll impose Shria law, and turn us all queer!
We ignorant hasten to swell the great crowd
Coming out for the Domhnall, the bane of MacLeod
Those Libral professors can all just retire
Well throw all their fancy ass books in the fire
The Bibles the only good book that we need
Assuming that some of us learn how to read
The wise high school drop outs bring brains to the crowd
That cheers on the Domhnall, the shame of MacLeod
The black man in povertys obviously lazy
The poor man is stupid, the strong womans crazy
The Muslims are monsters, the gays God just hates
The Mexican rapists can wait at the gates
These vile epithets are red meat for the crowd
That fights for the Domhnall, the curse of MacLeod
And then theres the women, those ungrateful bitches
Expecting mens pay, and wearing mens britches!
The Domhnall will put them all back in their places
Tear up Roe v Wade, and throw it in their faces
Now unwanted children weep amongst the crowd
That voted for Domhnall, the worst of MacLeod!
Maeve
(42,279 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,202 posts)Thank you for sharing that with us and welcome to DU!
Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)FDT.
Maru Kitteh
(28,339 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)There was no inaugural poem.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)...Would those cities be located on THIS planet?...
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Well, alright, if the next line is changed to:
"Are fleeing from Domhnall 'Pussgrabbing' Macleod".