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Nov 2022 · 131
pœm re pain
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
Sometimes

when         the      demons

Are                               me
             chasing

                   I

Fetch         an              A4


          And         set

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                            [me]
Nov 2022 · 65
Exuberant
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
.                  Exuberant


I encountered a Charolais on the

  Road, perplexed to be between

  Two high grassed hillocks with

  Inaccessible moats preventing

     Grazing. What an anomaly

     It must have seemed, such

     Profusion, yet out of reach.
    

     Oh for a gate to an empty

    Field a vacant sheet where

     Writers block hinges open

     Into a luscious vocabulary

       Of rampant abundance.


         A cowabunga eureka

      Verdant moment ensued

           And from her **** a

       Milky Way materialised

      On my blank parchment.





10/11/2022.

Normandy.
Nov 2022 · 82
Shell Shocked
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
.                                          Shell Shocked

                                   First it was an egg, free

                                 range, brown, organic, raw.

                              Charles and Camilla scrambled

                        Before yokes of the imperialised boiled

                    Over and accused them of historical poaching.
Nov 2022 · 68
Exuberant
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
.                  Exuberant


I encountered a Charolais on the

  Road, perplexed to be between

  Two high grassed hillocks with

  Inaccessible moats preventing

     Grazing. What an anomaly

     It must have seemed, such

     Profusion, yet out of reach.
    

     Oh for a gate to an empty

    Field a vacant page where

     Writers block hinges open

     Into a luscious vocabulary

       Of rampant abundance.


         A cowabunga eureka

      Verdant moment ensued

        And from her udders a

       Milky Way materialised

      On my blank parchment.





10/11/2022.

Normandy.
Nov 2022 · 120
Itinerant
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
Itinerant


One can create virtually

Anything with an imagination

We have limitless storage

There is a place for every

Situation pillows of thought

filled with endless fantasies

profound wells of wisdom

Where one can be refuged

From everything, with the

Exception of the cold night air.
Nov 2022 · 71
Tenses
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
Present

 I cannot live in the

here and now because

it makes me extremely tense,


 Past

so I find solace by re-locating

my euphoric erstwhile, albeit

it being a sans domicile fix

                                                            ­                                                             F.
      Future

to a green oasis where fertile

minds out grow the shadows of

their neighbours drill in weeds.
Nov 2022 · 68
To Be
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
If one is to be sure of which is

   the correct side of the political

   fence in world events there is

   A simple equation that can be

   Employed to find the solution.


   Opposite to the WASP’s works

   Well as a general rule of thumb

   Providing, that is, you are not

   Hitching a ride on either of the

   The gravy trains they provided.
Nov 2022 · 71
Dullsville
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
Dullsville


There are no standard tolerance

Threshold levels, endurance is

unique not a universal gauge


Yard sticks of life emanate from

A variety of different branches

Some more pliable than others


Isolation expatriation homelessness

Co-habit a timeshare where melancholy

Gate crashes centurions of the mind


We are not all the same colour

We are not all the same make

We are not all assembly line children


If there is no accommodation for

Difference then same will proliferate

And encroach its mundane on Dullsville.
Nov 2022 · 104
Diver'gent
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
Diver'gent


Seeing it as it isn’t is not

Conducive to being part

Of a standard orthodoxy.


Conservative minds tread

On the pedestrian prosaic

Of the commonplace.


Main stream turns their

Wheel at run of the mill,

Where old is fashioned.


Predictable is formulated,

Established is accepted,

Tradition is compulsory.


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Not a place for the radical,

Unconventional, bohemian,

Originality, is their antonym.
Nov 2022 · 99
Mid Term'inate
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
Biden has the universe

                     On the brink of WW 3

But all the Democrats

                    Are worried about is a

Trump induced fratricide.
Nov 2022 · 86
Poem for Pres
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
Forget Me (K)Nots

             <>

Joe Bye Then wears

One on his lapel, he

Also has a piece of

String tied to a finger

Just in case he fails

To recall why there

Are five blue leaves

On his Shamrock !!
Nov 2022 · 68
Disparate
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
.         Disparate


When we use a voice

aloud in a disallowed

environment


When we write words

where Bill Poster was

prosecuted


When we think contrary

to the majority of the

populous


When will the opiated

realise, that the assent,

of dissent, is decent ?









Ps.

Saying no is not sufficient

Doing no is not effective


Being no is not temporary!
Nov 2022 · 52
About Now
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
.                                    Belfry


                        Imagine a fulcrum with

                       A giant suspended ball

                  Swinging in an arc between

                Two masonry Walls smashing

              Against one and bouncing back

               To the other continuously in an

              Effort to erode destroy demolish

           But despite all the repetitious efforts

         Never actually achieving the objective.

    This is how the power of now pendulum tries

   To annhillate the immovable   \
                                                     \
                                                       \  
                                                         \
                                                           \
                                             Past &.   O   Future
Nov 2022 · 39
Democracy
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
Ultimate Democracy


The common denominator

For this elusive notion of

Equality is not an equator

Of compassionate division.


In this world of have’s and

have not’s of colonisers &

colonised an opportunity of a

Pyrrhic reckoning has arisen.


The ultimate democracy is an

Armageddon Holocaust by

Which the meek, who'll never

Inherit the earth, can get even.
Nov 2022 · 74
Tír na nÓg
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
.      Surely, even better, than

      Wilde’s affirmation of not

     having anything to declare,

(but one's genius), would be, to

be, a citizen, in possession, of a

passport, from the ‘Imagi-Nation'
Nov 2022 · 52
* | __
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
Shadows hide not

from the sun, but

they fear clouds.
Nov 2022 · 56
Magical Thought
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2022
Magical Thought


Some people might call it

wishful thinking, fairytale,

fantasy, even dreamland.


Now is none of them, it’s a

dismal place to be, where

doldrums beat a death knell.


Magical thought is an arc

from past to future, never,

ever, pausing at the present.
Oct 2022 · 71
Why?
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
We’re not dogs, some of us are

not even carnivores, so showing

the teeth need not be viewed as

an aggression, why hide a smile?
Oct 2022 · 80
Assange
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
From behind vertical strings of

      my guitar, custodial melodies

            escape through a port-

              hole, via the bars.

                     | | | 0 | | |
Oct 2022 · 66
D.E.A.
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
Draconian Evil Abasing.


It gives me the shivers,

just what I have read,

about Joseph Rivers.


16,000 in this black man’s

chest, ** ** **, he’s

got to be a ***.


But he had no say against

the D.E.A. because the

scales of justice did not sway.


Rat a tat tat on the Amtrak

where the only bag opened

was this black mans pack.


Boy, where did you get, all of

this money and don't say nest

eggs, or the Easter Bunny?


Rivers your dollars are under

arrest, because they are not in

ratio, as to how you are dressed.
Oct 2022 · 92
D.E.A.
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
Draconian Evil Abasing.


It gives me the shivers,

just what I have read,

about Joseph Rivers.


16,000 in this black man’s

chest, ** ** **, he’s

got to be a ***.


But he had no say against

the D.E.A. because the

scales of justice did not sway.


Rat a tat tat on the Amtrak

where the only bag opened

was this black mans pack.


Boy, where did you get, all of

this money and don't say nest

eggs, or the Easter Bunny?


Rivers your dollars are under

arrest, because they are not in

ratio, as to how you are dressed.
Oct 2022 · 204
The power of now
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
The ‘Power' Of Now


It’s just midnight Ekhart & due

To the EU sanctions on Russia

We have had a ‘power' outage

Here in Bretteville, despite our

Proximity to Flamemville which

Is a Normandy Nuclear Reactor.


It's still the 29th at ‘present’ yet

In a second it will be tomorrow,

But I must put the clock back

Sixty minutes, so it is going to

Be yesterday for another hour.

With luck I’ll sleep before ‘now’.
Oct 2022 · 68
Consolation
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
In stygian gloom when

           fear trespasses I shutter

my eyes peer through

                       pores of delicate

derma at celestial bodies

                shimmering cherubic

intimations, luminously.
Oct 2022 · 46
Halloween
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
.                   Halloween.                          
                           <>
           Tonight is the night
          of the skeleton dance,
       phantoms and sorcerers
          with witches romance.
                           <>
           Wizards and dunces
              arrive in tall hats,
            Count Dracula too
           surrounded by bats.
                           <>
         It's the place to be seen,
     don't know, who you'll meet,
            potions and charms,
            your trick is our treat.
                           <>
       So, on with your make-up
        and dress like a knave,
          around the bone fire is
           where they will rave.
                           <>
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
.     I was a Holocaust sceptic

        Before the Ukraine war

     now I’ve read the Babi Yar.


       How can Zelensky lead

              the Azov horde

   They put jews to the sword.


         But for the red army

          The world resigned

   Why is Russia still maligned.


         And now once more

             A knave in Kiev

      Expects us all, to believe.


            Wake up world

           The west is lying

Their narrative needs clarifying.
Oct 2022 · 54
Vlad
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
If there was anyone live or dead

    That I would like to meet,


Or if I could amalgamate all their

Genius creativity and compassion,


Going back to Alexander the Great

Diogenes Socrates or even Plato,


Michael Collins Nelson Mandela

Jimmy Hoffa Ken Livingstone,


William Butler Yeats John Lennon

Bob Marley I’d rather meet you,


Because nobody has courage

to stand up for ALL our rights


  And thank you for not letting

   The Nato ****’s F.UK.US.
Oct 2022 · 64
Vlad
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
If there was anyone live or dead

      That I would like to meet,


Or if I could amalgamate all their

Genius creativity and compassion,


Going back to Alexander the Great

Diogenes Socrates or even Plato,


Michael Collins Nelson Mandela

   Jimmy Hoffa Ken Livingstone,


William Butler Yeats John Lennon

  Bob Marley I’d rather meet you,


   Because nobody has had the

Courage to stand up for our rights


    And thank you for not letting

     The Nato ****’s F.UK.US.




Ryan O'Leary

Ireland.

29th Oct 2022.
Oct 2022 · 67
Prison poem
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
From behind vertical strings of

      my guitar, custodial melodies

          escape through the port-

              hole, via the bars.

                     | | | 0 | | |



For Julian Assange.
Oct 2022 · 41
WW 3
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
WWW.123@AGRO.US



The term world war has only been

used twice, the 20 year Afghanistan

Vietnam wars were mere skirmishes.


Though longer in duration than

the amalgamation of the WW1/2

they never get the same respect.


Yet, the inhabitants suffered just

as much, and in Vietnam’s case,

some would argue, a lot more.


There is a common denominator

in virtually all modern wars though,

that is the Unites States of America.
Oct 2022 · 87
An Analogy
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
.               An Analogy


     " Do you think, because

      every time you have an  

     election you can presume

   you're living in a democracy.

    Has it ever occurred to you

     that every time you’ve had

       an *******, you did not

      automatically get ****** "
Oct 2022 · 69
Post Hegemonic
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
.  Post Hegemonic


Boy O’ Diversity has

Been employed to

Fence post, the hedge.


As yet, no funds have

Been made available.


Multi Polar Siberian

Bears have been

Seen in the area.


Thus, the urgent need

For the containment.


Rotating 'Geopolitical

Shift’ workers will be

On eight hour vigils.


F.UK.EU & NATO

Will use a curtain.


Russia & China are

Opting for a wall,

Made of B.R.I.C.S.

      [] [] [] [] []






Ps.

    o
Go d Less America.
    ^
Oct 2022 · 61
limerick for no4skinsky
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
Zelensky was heard on the phone

   Condemning an incoming drone

     Another swarm from the east

       Caused apiphobia at least

When just over his head one had flown
Oct 2022 · 86
Tale of the Q
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
When god made the

alphabet he decided

in hindsight that if O

needed a P it would

have no choice but Q.
Oct 2022 · 324
Truss Limerick
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
It is time for a Uber U-turn

    Liz Truss has a lesson to learn

      She can't balance the books

         With the figures he cooks

  But was Kwasi the one to discern?
Oct 2022 · 71
Builders Limerick
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
There are rules in construction for us

     Planning, regulations and fuss

      When a beam is load bearing

        And sagging from wearing

It is time to replace the main Truss.
Oct 2022 · 59
Limerick for Bye Then.
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
America will be first to use nukes

       Despite all requests and rebukes

                      It’s in their DNA

                     As in Hiroshim-a

Because they cannot depend on their troops
Oct 2022 · 55
Iced Limerick
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
If global warming could melt Jens Stoltenberg

Better again, that he's cancelled by Zuckerberg

            We’d all applaud, and then shout

                For this Brussels spout, lout

    Because anti Nato, support, would then surge.
Oct 2022 · 41
Porte Parole
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
Porte Parole


The unhinged door has no loose screws,

Nor can it be silenced with lubricating oil

Or locked away or painted over in an effort

To hide by camouflage, because the ope

Speaks in volumes of metaphorical meanings

And nobody gets any satisfaction by spying

Through the peephole. Nor has it accepted

Being contained to that same repetitious arc

As all the other Porte Entrees. Occasionally

It was left ajar as though it was some token

Of liberty. Freedom is the illusion whereby

A mirage creates an image, but don’t blink.
Oct 2022 · 77
F Word Limerick
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
Joe Biden said Whale Oil Beef Hooked

      When Bin Salman refused to conduct

                     He cut output by half

                   With a smile to a laugh

      And Vlad Putin just told him get ******
Oct 2022 · 51
Roger Waters Limerick
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
He was not a person of any note

      Not sure if he even could vote

        He scribed haiku's on bricks

     Should have all been Limericks

On the walls where graffiti was wrote
Oct 2022 · 70
No 4 Skin Limerick
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
.  It is swirling around the sink drain

     Yes, you got it, I speak of Ukraine

               The pun is Hell Sink'y

              The captain's Zelensky

Whom the world will soon see as profane
Oct 2022 · 85
Biden Limerick
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
Joe Bye Then know’s Gore, not Al-Zeimer

       Yet his speech is not real but a mimer

                  He forgets his last name

                Then pretends it’s a game

  Because he knows it will rhyme with old timer
Oct 2022 · 90
Brass Monkeys
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
Brass Monkeys


At the meteorological university,

Winter did manage to wear a

mortar board, but only just, as

It got lowest degree ever to be

bestowed on any of the seasons.


This coming exam which will be

held at the port city of Hamburg

Circa December/January is said

To be the toughest O˚ Levels

Ever to be hosted in Europe.


All EU member states are going

To participate, even the UK who

Had previously enrolled before

This years paper had been set

By Russian federation members.


Liz Truss is leading the British

Team and according to some

Sources they are seen as the

Favourites having had more

Time to practice than others.




12/09/2022
Oct 2022 · 127
Sir
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
Sir
.                            Sir.


            Reverse Colonisation.

        "No, no, no, we can’t have

     Rishi Sunpak as primeminister,

That would be a national and historic

Embarrassment, no way, put Truss in"


But everyone will see that as racism!

  "Well, ok then, get that black chap,

              What’s his name”?

  Quarthing Sir, Quasi Quarthing.

    "Give him the Chancellors job"


   They are protesting outside the

  Conference hall Sir, thousands of

     People with placards chanting

DerogaTory slogans led by that Irish

  ****. “Who” The Lynch Mob, Sir!
Oct 2022 · 46
Limerick
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
Limerick


               How does an L driver U-turn

         With J walkers at bow and at stern

                    Could try a T junction

               Or the Y with compunction

   But at the X there’s no choice but adjourn.
Oct 2022 · 52
Limerick
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
ERIC No Dot never uses punctuation

            But masters the art of abbreviation

                      His Dalmatian is Morse

                      And Braille is his horse

    Though both have been abridged by castration
Oct 2022 · 63
food Chain
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
Food  Chain



Animals that like animals

                Are not necessarily omnivores

Animals that like people

                Are not necessarily herbivores

But people that like animals

                             Tend to be carnivores
Oct 2022 · 137
R.C.
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
.          Reverse Colonisation.

        No, no, no, we can’t have

     Rishi Sunak as primeminister,

That would be a national and historic

Embarrassment, no way, put Truss in.


But everyone will see that as racism?

  "Well, ok then, get that Niger chap

              What’s his name”

   Kwarthing Sir, Kwasi Kwarthing.

    "Give him the Chancellors job"


   They are protesting outside the

  Conference hall sir, thousands of

     People with placards chanting

DerogaTory slogans led by that Irish

  ****. “Who” The Lynch Mob, Sir!
Oct 2022 · 80
News Summary
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
News Summary


Some have been affected

        By the subliminal

Indoctrination of the BBC

          For a century.


      Their belief system,

  Enriched by Catholicism,

  Which they permitted, as

It was a perfect symbiosis.


     And today, disciples

     Of diatribe continue

       In tradition of the

       Colonial masters.


     Acceptance of their

     Narrative highlights

       The insularity of

       Parochial minds,


Institutionalised thinking

    Rote renditions of a

  Media mantra, with but

     A one option menu.
Oct 2022 · 73
Wales Limerick
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2022
,   The Welsh have conceded succession

A new prince to remind their oppression

        They supplied Corgi’s to Queen

                  Dilyn to the has been

And that’s enough to prevent their secession.
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