“ It’s said Leopards can never

                change spots "

       Does that mean location

                    or dots ?

      “ It’s the former, I believe "

        So, is that bad for Kiev ?

" No, Zelensky prefers Oligarch

                   yachts “ !



Ps.

Pass on because it is true.

***** is on the side of Ukraine

Azov now they are acting like Cain

But will they be Able

With the cards on the table

Or will Vlad ride on in like John Wayne.

.              Senescence


One has to be tough to be old,

   such as the hills, would you

  look at them, hunch backed

   with age after a lifetime of

   being exposed, neglected,

      even trampled on, yet,

    they continue to endure.

.                Deliverence


       Freedom wears feathers

   and so long as we cage birds

     our interpretation of liberty

         will always define us.

Time Can’t Stand Still.


One day at a time is a

coping carrot for those

unable to deal with an

eternal future which is

leavened with all the

additives of yesterday.


Twenty four hours will

eventually become an

effort so it is only when

now becomes present

in ones consciousness

that still can't stand time.

America goes from one war to war

     None near home, but always afar

              Against tin *** states

   With barley enough on their plates

But with Russia they’re afraid of a spar

Mother Russia


  Matriarch a multipolar world

end the monopoly of imperial

   multinationals, march your

military exterminate magnates

  moguls and masterminds of

the evil destinies betrothed us.

They say that the Rouble will double
While Pound Sterling is seriously in trouble
The Euro's not trading
And The Dollar degrading
But the Hryvnia is under the rubble.

It is Roubles versus

             Dollars and Euro's

and Pounds because

                 Ukraine has got
             
a Hryvnia.

.               Gaelavanter


When everyday is a repetitious

echo and the mundane mirrors

  monotony, then, an ingredient

  is missing from one's recipe of

    life, it is time to add venture.

Spare Anagram's sentenced
                       <>


Parse Aprés Spare, aper's spear rapes,
pares asper pears, presa reaps prase.

.         Colonised Minds



If only we believed what we’d seen

the untravelled could be forgiven.


But adventures are not just journeys

to Ryan Air “ sanitised destinations “.


Yet, one does not need to leave home

to discover alternative truths, varied

opinions, or different perspectives.


Sadly, parochial intellects are unable

to look think or even imagine laterally.


Repetition is always their selection

even from menu's of multiple choices.


Uneducated palates are destined to

repeat what they previously ordered

and are totally unaware of ingredients.


Therefore, they will consume without

a single question whatever is placed

in front of them on their satellite dishes.

I was born to a leader not a

quitter

I’m the Alpha of a political

litter

I’m going to deal with inflation

A fiscal reincarnation

I’m resigning because I’m an

admitter

Can’t imagine what it feels

to be Harry


Being told to shave and

who he should marry


But he’s broken the ranks

Now he gets letters from cranks


Because the tabloids have axes

to bury.






9th Jan 2023.




Ps.


People may not be aware of it yet,

but, both you and Meghan will be

to ones that saved The Monarchy.

Now it’s Russia alone against
NATO

Chicken Kiev has been skinned
Like Potato

The EU,     (US Lackeys)
Are all dressed up in Khakis

Turning Ukraine into another
Soweto

.           Mosquito

  High revving nocturnal

two stroke without lights

Vespa sounds roaming

through cobbled alleyways

  hyped LavAzzA driver      

            expresso

               pizza

             delivery

             service

         (((((Ring)))))

I’m not a German, not French


Nor a Brit


But I’m a poet who puts and

                    ^                  
Accent on wit


Bet you guessed I was Dutch


I was thinking as much


So, with these words can you


Make my face fit ?

The EU's got the *****
Zelensky has no *******
The US has the *******

But Vlad's got the *****.

MOSQUE HOW

                 (˚<
"
Opinion is born of experience

from diverse view points which

gives one perspective on how

even mispronunciations may

change the interpretations of

any given situation, or spelling.

Proper gander being an example
                                                   "

                   ?
                   (˚>

In the womb of racial

  equality, tolerance and

respect share the same

umbilical cord, gestate in

  harmony, borne by the

  Ying, born of the Yang.

.          Peace By Piece


     First we brake the bowl

      which holds the plant

      and is filled with earth.

      Then we'll collect the

      fragments resembling

       a jigsaw puzzle and

      set about putting them

      all back together with

     a bonding agent called

    universal friendship and

   when it’ll be in one piece

we’ll put back the Water Lily.

.  Putin’s got the *****

Zelensky has no *******

and in between is that

******* from America.

Blizzard    


  It is snowing in Ukraine

Vlad is Putin on a blizzard


    The push has come,

from Russia with shove.


    New year resolution

      finds the solution.


        Chicken Kiev

         gets stuffed.


             NATO

          no longer.


          Them not

               U.S.

         Multi-Polar








             bear.

.                  The Firm.


    The stiff, the taut and the firm,

   unyielding unbending uncaring.


    Maligning of Meghan, Palace

     escape goat, sins of empire

       came back to haunt them.


       Di and Dye, the indelible

        stains of a royal banner.


         Remove *The Harp, we

             want no part of it.





Ryan O'Leary. 31st Dec 2022

Sun Cycle Silves


Meandering mountains passes

between heathered hills.


Pylons, gigantic catapults

transporting lifes transfusions

to the sunset ills.


Beware what morning brings

when Icarus in skylark flight

***** no more his waxing wings.


                    <>


In the foreground of this house

an orange-grove is a decoration

Of trees. On hill brows, taller

eucalyptus ridge back the contours

resembling a wooded wall of China

snaking its way far as the eye can see

punctuated here and there with lakes

In mindful reflection of the sky.

Distance is not permitted to confine

such visions, imaginations have no

boundaries. Somewhere beyond our

horizon similar depictions were about

to be conceived. Spermatozoa jet streams

being a testimony to that.


                 <>


Ryan 25th December 2022

From the balcony of the house

After a walk with the dogs on

hills which resemble the

Scottish Highlands. We are

house minding here now.

The gloves are off, Russia

Has given up the soft ball

Approach and brought on

The subs for the second

Half against 41 countries.

Reminiscent of WW2 the

Entire world against ******

But this time with the help

Of Allah, Putin will prevail.

Grated ice snows its

                     metaphorical dusting

on a green pasture

.                Pre Tense
            

     Aborigines have no word in

   their vocabulary for tomorrow,

   they live in Australia, which is

    twelve hours ahead, but, as

  Santa Claus cannot give them

a present in the future, they've

       become past masters at

       walkabout in dreamtime.

.                   Liberty  

      The sun moon and stars

     (with the exception of the

  fallen ones) are predestined,

it is only clouds have free will.

A gear box is a typical example of time.
there are many forward gears, a neutral position,
but only one reverse.

When we drive we are in the present looking to the future
but only occasionally refer to the past via the rear view mirror.
If we accidentally put the box in reverse while we are going forward the cogs will protest.

If we could apply this aspect of mechanics to the mind
we would discover that all movements of transmission
must pass through the neutral position.

It is an umbilical connection

between large intestine and

the mind, a nocturnal rail link

delivering re'morse missives

in rat a tat tat to the sleepers.

. Billy Graham blessed the bombs,

            Missals for the Missiles.

       Far better they were a Miss,

              Rather than Hit-iles!

. Thought tormented mind

       pain pierced heart

            tortured soul.


     Hide this dementing

    daylight, inhale utopia,

    ****** an eternal now.

.                  Thalassa


   One can listen to the ocean

     in a shell but its nuances

          are never revealed.


        Metaphors of the mind,

        Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic,

         Black, Red even blue.


   Tumultuous highs. At night

glum lows discarding wrinkled

debris on foreheads of the soul.

.      Autumn foliage fades and falls
            as sap recedes for Winter.

      But it never fails to return, from
    the well of hibernation, for Spring.

Then, in Summer, a tree leafed shade,
will be there once again, for everyone.

.          Au Revoir


   He wished me well

       a bon voyage

     sainte et chance


      and added that

       it was merited


    he noted sadness

shrouded in my eyes

    
though I'd yet to blink

   the sap of sorrow

.       Cross Avian
          

Out beyond the treble

  Glazed window (˚<

Proper Gander was

Miming something in

Bird talk to (˚> Dumb

        Down Duck.

      "Get Plucked"

.                 Transition


    Imagine if Edvard Munch

      and Leonardo de Vinci

      were poets how would

     they convey no smile to

       a scream in literature ?


       News for the deaf is

       signed and mimed

              In silence.  


      Pictures can paint

      a thousand words.

  
      But the imagery of

     metaphor employs

        two mediums.


      Using charades

      and pursed lips,

   ventriloquists Munch

     becomes a nasal

            shriek.

.                   Altruism
            

  Pain reflects attracts and shelters,

   benevolent havens are indicated

      with empathy or compassion

  

Human suffering has a magnetism

  invisible to an eye not the senses,

  common denominators apportion.



  Awareness of the importance of

   equality, is binary, especially if

     opposites are marginalised.

The earth spins on its axis

it also goes round the sun

yet while it is doing all that

vast majorities never move.

Copy-Cats


    On parole day I went to the

     wall of words only to find

    erased bits of a sentence

      scattered on the ground.


       My graffiti was missing

         plagiarists had been,

     they left their punctuation

           marks everywhere.

.           Smoking Salmon


     When we retire it gives us

      ample time to look after

     our failing health faulting

     minds and broken spirits.


     Constipated thoughts are

    the blockages preventing

    us from interacting as we

   did when we were younger.


Some of us become reclusive

   we hide away from society

  our self imposed quarantines

become permanent hibernations.


Expatriation, migration, diaspora,

    the ones that got away fish

always wanting ever wishing to

get back to the spawning ground.


But alas, as is often the case, the

  dam weirs get taller, our lungs

shallower we end up foul hooked,

gasping at the gills, struggling for air.

.                      (˚<

        Proper Gander look

        in quack mirror see

         dumb down duck

                      (˚>

.                 Lancing


  Bleeding was an old method

  of treating ailments, a bit like

inking though a nib on to paper

is how poets and authors do it.

Coveting         Colour

.           Pretence


The sad reality of a mixed

cultural marriage is that 1

or both parties are always

predestined to be unhappy.


Location location location

continuously the problem,

geographical contentment

is fake ****** of pretence.

When sap recedes,

        depriving leaves

       nutrients of envy,


         foliage famines,

   green turns jaundiced

     denuding branches,


                while

          Autumnising

             Anaemia.

.    Providence

At the crossroads,

dauntless free will

followed the sign

which pointed to

  predestination

    ending up in

            a

     cul de sac.

.                    Winter


      When night goes on shift

    work, dark days bother me.


       Aurora borealis occurs

  above stratospheric mantles.


   There's no milky way when

   udder cows leave the fields.


       Snow cover quilts, the

    green patchwork pasture.

.                  Doing
           Geographical’s


My biggest fear is homelessness,

yet, I have sold 20 houses in 40

years, what’s wrong with me and

now at age 72, I am in a camper.


I have tempted fate & destination.

Choice has caused my downfall

& running away from demons in

the head, but they always follow.


Well, they did in the past pursue

me, but now at least they won’t

need to take the usual 6 months

to find me, the van was their idea.






Ryan 27/11/2022

Normandy