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Ryan O'Leary Dec 2024
I kissed the cloud, which
    on me, shadows cast.

    It's glass I tilted and
    swallowed darkness.

    The head that shone
   for me, was Guinness.
Ryan O'Leary Dec 2024
It is based on trade
Wind trajectories,
Roaring forties, gale
Force and doldrums.
By triangulation such
As Bermuda iSOSoles
Isolationism, locating
May Day Distress calls
Avoids GPS tracking,
Thus permitting high
Seas seizures simply.
Ryan O'Leary Dec 2024
I recall writing a dark
poem in pitch ink on
a stygian parchment.

Reminded me of when
I painted my bedroom
completely, in coal black,

but, for a brown bakelite
****, on the surface of
a gun barrel union lock.

The shade diffused what
light there was, the bulb, a
dying star in a distant galaxy.
Ryan O'Leary Dec 2024
It could have been
Bower house or
Our house but for
The Homeless in
Gaza it is rubble and
Re-bar in a mound.

An installation artist
Would no doubt coin
A wonderful title for it.

There is a distinct lack
Of colour or are all the
Photos purposely black
And white, lunar like the
Burren District of Clare.

Where Yeats said that
“ there wasn’t a tree to
hang a man nor soil to
to bury one “

Today as the risen sun
Climbed to the top of
   Tower House in
    The Guardian

     cast a crying eye
    on strife on death
      donkey pass by
Ryan O'Leary Dec 2024
(‘< propaganda’r wishes
(‘> dumbed down ducks
  A safe happy Christmas.
   Be careful of quack’ers
   Ovens micro waves and
   Barbecues. Get laid but
   Please don’t get plucked!
Ryan O'Leary Dec 2024
M’Aidez M’aidez became
May Day             May Day
Shah Mat became Check Mate.

Yet, there are people consume
Main Street Media’s daily diet
Without ever questioning it.

Chess was invented in Persia
An Islamic Muslim state, not
Arab, but there are no bishops.

Yet, there on the board either
Side of the monarch, are two
.
Now why is that ask yourself ?

The papal crusades removed
The ships ( which tack ) if you
Are familiar with wind and sails,

So, why would a bishop move
Diagonally across the board?
It makes no sense, not to me!

If you don’t play chess and you
Have never sailed, then there is
An excuse for not knowing this.

Ditto if one takes MSM to be an
Accurate assessment of world
Affairs, even in an en passant.

Did they get you to use teabags
Instead of tea leaves, slice pan
Rather than a loaf of bread?

Is it cost or convenience or is
Careless consumer syndrome?
Ask yourself am I a dumbed down

                        (‘>
                         ?
Ryan O'Leary Dec 2024
In the forest, just past
Jack Daw’s place there
are a cluster of trees
next to the Crow Bar.

It can be a bit noisy at
night especially when
the Caw Bogues and
Prechains are there.

Raven up till all hours
and then they go and
perch without a thought
for anyone else in the tree.

Those who went home
early and took the lower
branches are shat upon all
night, hence Rook Bottom!






Ps Irish words
          /
Prechain (preycawn)= Crow
        /
Cabog  (cawbogue)= Fcukin Eejit
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