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Jul 2024 · 38
Dedication
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
My current poetry count
Is an epic 5,437, when
One considers that I only
Began in 2000 A.D. after
I stopped drinking alcohol.

I have decided to dedicate
This first tranche to two
Other poets,Lord  Ganesha
From Maha-Bharat India
And Holly B Barret Ireland.
Jul 2024 · 66
common usage
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Friends Of Ours

I have never used the term
always thought it was a bit
presumptuous, it could be
considered a sign of having
few or even no acquaintances,
or pending on whom they were,
namedropping, which is worse.

I bet you’ll never get to meet
them, en passant props used
for self agrandissement often
living in grand houses or with
big cars in a photo of course.
But have you noticed, these
people disappear, frequently.

What about, you’ll never believe
who I ran into today? a child’s
game begins and you must say,
who? And before you are told,
the scene has to be set up with
a few seconds thrown in, the
entourage, one could be Fritz.
Jul 2024 · 64
Economic Migrants
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Mixed Metaphor suitable
for Irish racists.


Overcrowding, would ya
look at it, the constellation,
far too many stars, bet
ya half of them are from
some other galaxy just
milking our solar system.

Take the moon, now that’s
a one, come day go day, now
you see it now you don’t.

Where does our light go, when
the darkness comes, tell me!

The sea is another skiver offer
high tide low tide Spring tide,
no tide, but that will be a lake.

The earth does day trips
around it’s axis and once a
year a trip to the back of the sun.

The seasons seem to come
and go as they please but
they deciduously dump their
foliage all over the place.

Birds are economic migrants
pure and simple, especially
those ******* Swallows, did
you know that they have more
nests than one and they leave
their dropping’s everywhere.

Fortunately we’re on an island
or we’d be inundated with the
Transhumances every year
coming here for easy pickings.

****** excursionists the lot of
them, I think there should be a
wall constructed at the equator.

PETA are like all those government
agencies finding accommodation
for these strays when we should
be constructing kennels for our own.

Pest control I say, not passport
control and God knows what diseases
they’re bringing into the country, is
there anyone checking, we are rabies
free, or should I say, we were!

These animals could have anything,
but what’s more concerning, is that
they’re mating with the native species.
Jul 2024 · 55
The Evil Ones
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Brahms Lullaby

Israel can never know
Peace, and is unable
To sleep, because the
Insomnia of evil will be
Their incurable tinnitus.

No amount of pillows,
No amount of sedation,
No amount of sheep,
No amount of anything.
They’ll not stop rocking you.
Jul 2024 · 45
Alzheimers
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
They shoot horses but only
When they fall and break a
Leg or when they are too old
To work and turned out by
Their masters when then are
Sent to the knackers yard.

But the race is in progress
And yet after failing to stop
Him competing, Genocide
Joe tries to put the front
Runner down in full view of
The media and the world.

What a ******* Alzheimer’s
Is, he has no recollection of it.
Jul 2024 · 29
Joe B
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
The Alzheimer’s assassination,
Sorry, association of Ireland said
That they want to disassociate
Their organization with Genocide
Joe because he is not Abiden by
The ancient charter of diaspora,
Which is, ‘’ we forgive but we
Never forget ‘’. This means that
Genocide Joe is not welcome in
The 40 shades of green anymore.
Jul 2024 · 50
US
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
US
Donny T Bag
Said that Joe Biden thinks
PG Tips is a hand book
For Presidential Geriatrics
Jul 2024 · 79
From Netflix Show
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Falling Star
        
Dallas Cowboys – Logos Download

  I stand wide gait
  arms spread and
   head pointed to
     the sky, at my
   celestial sisters.

  Shine brightly on
   your milky way,
   rehearse again,
   for the millionth
   time, perfection.

    Galaxy Girls on
  the most watched
  playing field in our
  universe, prairie of
   the almighty one.

  Entertainers to the
  world, inspirational,
beyond exceptional,
aspirational, but not
for me, I’m trop petite!


              ---



Ryan O'Leary (Ireland)
             For
© to Ariana McClure

18 July 2024

        <>
Jul 2024 · 53
Irish Poem
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
/
‘’ Fade ‘’ Mile Failte

Yes, the sun eventually set in the
Brutish Empire, last rays dimmed
the 40 shades of our welcome mat.

Our lament is over, no more Lodge
at the entrance, we’re emancipated
not even a gateman for thé trains.

We became born again, *******,
**** the black babies, the lot of
them should have been aborted.

Mother Theresa was a fossil faced
***** and Kuntae Kintae got what
he deserved,

**** Bangladesh Bob Geldof and
Band Aid,
Jul 2024 · 45
Outage Poem
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Not politically correct to
Say      out anymore
Although there’s a form
Writing called       out
Poetry whereby words
Are erased from existing
Texts using a        felt tip.

If I was a        person I
I would find it offensive
When the teacher tells
A student to go and erase
The white board because
When I was a wee lad back
In Ireland, we had        boards
And boxes to collect money
For the      babies. So when I
Read about Microsoft IT Outage
I knew they meant         out.
Jul 2024 · 67
Limerick for Bread
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
In Norway their bread is called Brod

In Kristiansand their bakery’s named Odd

They use flour that is Leven

Which is all milled in Heaven

And grown Bio/Organic by God.
Jul 2024 · 46
The Biden Quatrain
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
.         Donny T

He was cheated in 2020
He was framed in 2021
He was prosecuted in 2023
He was shot in 2024
Jul 2024 · 64
Snippet of info
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
A Frenchman translated
Joyce’s poem for Bloomsday.

On reading it he exclaimed
Une omelette sans beurre.

Indeed, apparently it lost all
Of its content and meaning.

Edward Fitzgerald read a
Translation of the Rubyiatt.

My God he said. What’s all
The talk about Khayyam?

He went and learned Persian
Just to read the Quatrains.

James Joyce learned the
Entire Norwegian language.

He done so, simply to read
One poem by Hendrik Ibsen.

The poem was Peer Gynt and
Then he abandoned Norwegan.

When Ibsen died in Oslo, the
Funeral was delayed for Joyce.

I am close to Ibsen birthplace
And will visit his grave in Oslo.

Next, we need to find out about
Roald Amusden the South Poler.
Jul 2024 · 40
Think About This?
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
V - S U A  - .


I could be a small l,
like this l, which is,
oddly, the first digit.

The moral is, if three
refugees were white,
we’d only notice, none!
Jul 2024 · 37
Thought Bubbles
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Helium Heads cannot
conceal what they are
thinking, tell tale signs
    give them away.

Body language, eye
contact, handshakes
are but a few, Dracula
     has no shadow!

We mirror what’s in
   our imaginations,
   feigned empathy
    has no vibration.
Jul 2024 · 29
Sky Walkers
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Everyone wants to get high,
as on hills, just like Hillary.

Steeplejacks with no heads
for heights, become Abseilers.

I’m a sky rider, I took a bicycle to
where no one ever dared, before.

Icarus returned without his wings,
and I came back without my peddles.
Jul 2024 · 68
Irish Refugee
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Legalized

If I stay here long enough
they said I could become
naturalized, which I think
is a bit like, homogenized.

Imagine that, normalized,
after being scrutinized, I
would be synchronized to
become more harmonized.

But how does that work
because I am ostracized
demonized even despised,
perhaps I’ll be hypnotized.

Ah: I get it, I’ll be baptized
no longer marginalized, I
will become civilized and
one day I will be canonized!
Jul 2024 · 34
Lament for USA
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Brown girl in the ? ()val
US of A and not of Yeovil
A president but by default
Joe bye then was brought to halt.


Ps

It’s true, any auld eejit can be president
Jul 2024 · 33
Listeners
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
.    Fear not the talkers
     Or their echoes but
     When an ear on the
Wall falls to the ground
And green grass whispers
What the grapevine heard,
It is time for Hush Puppy
  Sneakers to eavesdrop!
Jul 2024 · 32
Fraternity Sorority
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Unisex

In days of dual toilets
males never had to
worry about Wet Bot,
because we raised the
seats when urinating.

But since the advent
of political correctness
equal opportunity and
gender inclusiveness,
a terrible duty was born.

The age of reciprocation,
and indeed chivalry have
been lost in the transition
of individualism, women do
not lift seats, but complain!
Jul 2024 · 28
Art
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Art
Art Has No Comparison

I always wanted to be an
Artist but the professor
Told me I had no eye for
Colour. Detail, dimension
Or perspective, ‘thé arts
In any form are not for you’.

So I took his advice and
Used my Penicillus for a
Totally Different purpose.
Jul 2024 · 30
Rescued
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
What I miss about home
Is the rain the greenness
And the pint of Harp, says
All there is to say about us.

We all wish we were home,
Or, that we never left and
Be it Sally O’Brien or Shep
The dog, we all have regrets.

But imagine arriving without
A word of the language, not
Understanding the culture,
Who wants to be a refugee?
Jul 2024 · 24
Lucky, Black Cats?
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Have you ever owned
A black car, do you
Prefer brown shoes?

Do you use the term
Black Out (in plural)?

Did you ever paint a
Red door a different
Colour?

Do you drink flat
Guinness or Irish
Coffee without
The cream?
Jul 2024 · 24
-----Palette-----
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
If I was asked to paint
a metaphorical picture,
give it aroma, even taste!

I would achieve that by
poetic license, I’d simply,
change the title, to Palate.
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Du Jardin bought a van and it’s Zippy
Phoned me up, because I am a Chippy
Can you convert this Camper?
Charlotte said ‘’ Revamp Her ‘’
I’ll be Britain’s, first ever, Miss Whippy.
Jul 2024 · 33
Arctic Circle
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
.               O

It has without doubt a
glacial circumference,
and of course, there’s
a Stygian gloom, under
what appears, snowdrift,
until one tastes it, that is!


                _/

It's a Pint Of Guinness
Jul 2024 · 99
Gaelavanter
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
I am familiar with truancy
which in ways was what
led to my vagrancy and
eventual immigrancy, so
I have experience of how
life feels to be in itinerancy
and constant unexpectancy
and I don’t think refugees
should be branded with
delinquency especially
with the current frequency.
Jul 2024 · 58
More on Irish Racism
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Fir gan Teanga

Sectarianism colonized their souls
Language colonized their words
Hate colonized their hearts

Refugees came without swords

But racism by those, merely shows,
That they are still colonized, by an
Inheritance, from their past masters.

                           <>
Fir Gan Teanga is Irish for Men
without a language.

The Irish were not only colonised
geographically but also linguisticly.

Tir Gan Teanga means a country
without a tongue
Jul 2024 · 55
UEFA Poem
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Ref Ref Ref

It is time to blow the whistle

Everyone can see it’s a foul

We don’t need VAR it’s blatant

Muslims/******* can’t play here

This is a white christian stadium

Ukraine subs ok they’re not blackallah’s

We’re Irish we’re not racist (but)

We never went to any of their countries

We never forced our religion on anyone

We never turned up anywhere as refugees

We don’t want our green pitch, jungled

We don’t want any of those Riff Raff Ref.
Jul 2024 · 41
Black Out
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Universal Outage

Pick a busy street and choose a place to sit.
Allocate a location, then observe for 1 hour.
Take note of how many people occupied a
Particular spot and more, their nationalities,
By approximate assessment. Multiply this by 12 to give an average day. And at night, this
Morsel of ground will be abandoned. Try to
Imagine how many of those that tread on
Your selected pied à terre, were refugees,
Homeless, drug addicts, alcoholics, depressed, suicidal, sexually assaulted, and millionaires. What one will find, is that there
Was room at every given moment for all who
Arrived there, you may notice also that some
Stepped aside permitting the more needy to
Give them the right of passage and all of this
Occurs without lights or police to direct us.
It comes naturally, it is common courtesy, a
Learned response a reflexive action, it is our
Nature. We breathe the same air we share
The same light, until darkness and then we
Are all poetically licensed for everyone to
Distrust everyone, regardless of their colour.
Jul 2024 · 53
God Is Coming
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Liberté Égalité Fraternité

Coined in 1789 by Marat
Danton and Robespierre.

Only implemented under
Duress in Algeria 1962.

Mais, New Caledonia sont
En attendant, pour Godot.

Just like Genocide Joe waits
For the almighty to speak!
Jul 2024 · 69
Poem for Irish Racists
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Tourist Refugee

We have all been the
former, few the latter.

Yet, it is in all our DNA,
everyone’s an intruder.

At some time we were
all forced to (e)migrate.

But how ironic, tourists
are becoming a menace.

Barcelona bans baggers
Venice bans voyeurs.
Jul 2024 · 46
Passports
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
I don’t believe in prevention
permits restricting what is a
normal occurrence of people
movement just as in nature.

Try to imagine, if pigs could fly,
just like the mass migration of
all the avian species annually,
would they need identity cards?

Bédouins, Nomads, Gitanes,
Bohemians & Nonchalant Gaelavanter’s
should be exempt, we are refugees,
no fixed abode’rs not systemised.
Jul 2024 · 37
self assessmemt poem
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Feeler Gauge

How many black hands
have you shook’en in your
life, and if it t’were any, be
it be day, or be it, be night?

And will you be for knowin, if
twas a fish you caught, or be
it two grasps of the same grip,
but yours, what held it tight?
Jul 2024 · 58
Tourist Refugee
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
We have all been the
former, few the latter.

Yet, it is in all our DNA’s,
everyone is an intruder.

At some time we were
all forced to (e)migrate.

But how ironic, tourists
are becoming a menace.

Barcelona bans baggers
Venice bans voyeurs.

Ryan Air whiteouts are no
different than boat people.

Coming down here to change
your skin colour, are you now!

Well, you’re not wanted we can
do without the Anglo arrogance.

You can’t speak the language,
different religions and customs.

  Go back to where you came from
  we need airb&b’s for ourselves.

  Economically privileged discriminatory
  condescending is what you are.

  You have forgotten where you came
  from, hopefully, this will remind you!
Jul 2024 · 39
Stationary
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
- - i t   h a p p e n s

A short story about
Being out of paper in
The toilet.

Howard Hughes held
Interviews for his Pan
Am postal service.

30 candidates applied.
Hughes walked through
The waiting room.

He called his secretary,
Miss Talbot advise them
The interview is over.

But Mr Hughes you never!
Miss Talbot, tell the man with
Odd socks he got the job!
Jul 2024 · 49
Actual Occurance
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Coincidental Diagnosis

The person before me
Never flushed the WC.

Fortunately for him is
What I have to say to
That and but that we
Were on a ferry boat I
May have never go to
Diagnose him. Our paths
Crossed at the toilet door.
Roper turds can suggest
There is a cancerous
Growth in the intestine.
Stringy faeces is a sign.

Dare I tell him, as he sat
At the bar with his lady?

Well, I did and he was taken
Aback, 1 that he neglected
To pull the chain and 2 that
I suspected he had cancer!

He took my details and only
Today did I get a call and he
Had gone for tests and would
You believe it, I was right.
Jul 2024 · 40
P.O.E.M.S.
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
P.O.E.M.S. Syndrome

I have currently got 5,800
Poems composed. It is a
Sufficient amount to qualify
For a compulsive disorder.

But! Unknown to you, perhaps?
The title of this piece, is, in fact,
An acronym, and has nothing to
Do with ****** annoying writers!
Jul 2024 · 38
Ever Green
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
I would much rather be
Permanently unstable
Than temporarily sane
And I would prefer to
Have no rooted abode than
To live in a forest with those
other deciduous *******.
Jul 2024 · 50
Latest Limerick
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Some say, I’m poet laureate, Penniferous
Yes my nom, of the plume, is Con’iferous
Because I write with a Quill
Using nibs of made of Bill
It is why, all my poems, are Vociferous!
Jul 2024 · 56
Limerick
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
I’ve got a dog his name’s Bagel
A stray found by bridge, Nano Nagle
I think ‘twas a pseudo
Because his pet name was Jew Dough
Which would fit as it rhymes with finagle
Jul 2024 · 43
If
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
If
If I was a black Irish canine
In 60s UK, I would not be
Admitted in Battersea Dog’s
Home for adoption.

If I was a stray, most likely
I would have been shot by
Pest control, reported rabid,
Having bitten a caucasien.

If I was a homeless Black in
Ireland without a dog I would
Be given a pup tent and made
To sleep by the kerb like a cur.
Jul 2024 · 36
Homeless
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Homeless

It is not feasible for one
to imagine homelessness.

Just as it is as difficult to equate
alone and loneliness in a crowd.

If the issue was merely that of
not having a home then so be it.

Alas, our world has very little
tolerance for anything different.

But for some it’s worse, they are
of unsame colour and language.

They are of customs and religions
that are completely alien to us.

They eat smelly food, wear odd
clothing and have strange names.

Bédouins living on streets of our
hard earned independent capital.

Penny for the guy, Penny Lane,
we even had pennies from Heaven!

Do you remember putting a penny
in the black baby boxes at school?

That was when we were of pound
mind and body now we’re metriculated.
Jul 2024 · 37
I'm not racist but
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
I’m Not Racist, But

I won’t sit at the same
table, share a fridge or
sleep with a carnivore.

That is neither bigoted
patriotic, nationalistic
nor sexually segregating.

I do not look upon meat
eaters as inferior beings,
but perhaps, animals do.

We are what we eat after
all and we become what
we think, superior to nature.

I’m not racist, yet, I am
surrounded by the self
righteous meek inheritors.

But it’s the earth will show
up those if value and those
who are good for nothing.

If you look after your own back
garden, you will not be bothered
by those who seek a plot to plant.
Jul 2024 · 42
Ire Land
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
White Ire Land

From whence hat’h
all the anger cometh

Where goeth thou in
thy quest for purity

Town criers speaketh
of an impending doom

Aliens be amongst us
Plagues and pestilence

A dark age be dawning
it will us bringeth fear

Banish thee what has
brought despair and evil

Cast from our cliff edges
upon craggy rocks below

Satan, God hath deserted
us, curse the unwanted

Sty for your eye and teeth
of both cheeks smashed

For black demons & Islam,
venom of Patrick’s snakes.
Jul 2024 · 61
Famine Bird
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
Famine Bird

From Phœnix Park a
spark in smoke took
flight, alighting to the
sky into a white nimbus
and as Angels Harped
O’Carolan’s  Concerto
the flight and Ireland’s
fight began without end.
Jul 2024 · 36
SOS
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
SOS
women and children first
       WHITES ONLY
Oar poking permitted
      No blacks, Irish
       dogs or A-rabs
             aboard.
Jul 2024 · 36
Rachel's Differentiations
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
I don’t like black cars
so I drive a white one.
I don’t like Fat Freddy’s
cat so I got a kitten.
I don’t like foreign matter
so I keep my eyes closed.
Jul 2024 · 37
Aliens
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
They have two eyes
They have two ears
They have two hands
They have two legs
They have different
skin colour
They have different
languages
They are very strange
They are very odd
They are foreigners
They have allias’s
That means aliens
They have come
Not Smiths nor
Are they Jones’s
They are refugees
Jul 2024 · 36
Greeting
Ryan O'Leary Jul 2024
We can’t be the winds
or the waves or the sea

We can open our hearts,
our homes, let’s make free

We can’t be the boats or
the planes or the trains

We can be the ones
to diminish their pains

We can’t always recall,
our, first ever meeting

We cannot deny, that, we
too, needed greeting (AA)
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