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Ryan O'Leary Feb 2023
Nomads Land.

Debris and wanderlust,
congest the by-ways  
with an eternal queue,
which begins and ends at
the directionless junction
of universal dissatisfaction.
Ryan O'Leary Feb 2023
Perpetual Pilgrimage


Evolution of the ego to its process

in reverse takes time and hardship.

It is an exercise in revision which

needs to be endured, it is a denial

of the familiar, a rationing of norm.


New horizons challenge the pattern

of one's sunrise, difference being a

surprise for which there can be no

preparation, no deja vu, no comfort

zone refuge or bubble dome home.


Permanence, or continuous without

interruption requires a fixed anchor.

Foundations in concrete become one's

harness which tether and restrict us.

It is why rolling homes gather no dross.
Ryan O'Leary Feb 2023
Italian campers all got a toilette

Which the English have christened cassette

Holds German shizer a week

Even if he eats Greek

But the French say he’ll need a bidette.
Ryan O'Leary Feb 2023
Going south, on our way to Valencia

With my wife and her dog called Hortensia

I turned left at Madrid

Arrived in Valladolid

At a sign which read, “ This Is Dementia ".
Ryan O'Leary Feb 2023
Poem For A Day

She is muse for verse
that comes not from
inspiration but aspiration.

She is not a novel,
nor fiction neither, just
the actual camouflaged.

She hides therein
masked by her suitor,
lover, then to laureate.

She make believes his
fantasy and imagination
thus bringing herself to life.

She hides on his page
amongst a maze of words,
optically elusive.

She rhymes with his reason
and can even read about her
secret self, but, unknowingly.

She Sometimes is a simile
or a metaphor an enigma
often a figure of speech.

She is spoken of in
her own presence yet
invisible to the crowd.

She can be a proposition,
preposition postulation
but always gender friendly.

She’s a creative influence,
his stimulae for literary
composition.

She is nocturnal, a
silent presence felt
in times of solitude.

She’s ANNA a reflecting
pal'indrome every time
she looks in her mirror.

She can create illusions
mirages even marriages or
simply romantic concoctions.

She is what he wishes her to
be but unfortunately only one
day in the year, February 14th.





Ryan for Anna
14th Feb 2023
Valentine Poem.
Ryan O'Leary Feb 2023
Type Cast


Dear president Zelenskiy what trouble

  you have brought on our world and

   on the Ukrainian people, what lies

    and deceptions you have used to

  avoid respecting Minsk agreements.

  Shame on you but as a Jew should

    we have expected anything else.
Ryan O'Leary Feb 2023
Distinct


While the Queen was walking corgi’s

  and Charles seen wearing kilts

        objects of the subjects

         ensured no loyal wilts.


   A Duke for those in Edinburgh

    and a Princely son for Wales

       but out across the waters

   they failed to entice the Gaels.
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