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Ryan O'Leary Jan 28
Treasure Trivia

I found a bag of words,
each, on separate bits
Of paper, all but two in
Different ink, which are
Without doubt the title.

Days to nights to weeks,
Passed, I puzzled pieces
Of this literary jigsaw, at
Times I was exasperated.
A phantom fictitious poet.


Anon.


Ps.

This poem may or may not
Be as the original composer
Intended it to be. It was not
An easy task and I have no
Idea how many permutations
Of the arrangement exists.

I am not even sure if I can
Claim copyright as I did not
Create the words I merely
Assembled the text. I would
Like to see other versions.
The punctuation is as was.
Ryan O'Leary Feb 21
That’s was what I supposedly
had none of, a ne’er do well
but it’s not entirely true, since
my teens there was something
I wanted to do, but I never did
muster up enough courage to
attempt it. Given the situation
of fight or flight my adrenaline
gland always supplied me with
enough cortisol for the latter.
I was a failure at school never
passed a single exam not even
the driving test in later life after
five attempts may I add. Jobs
I had scores of and names I had
many too. I never produced a
child, the earth shows up those
of value and those who are good
fir nothing, I’m a **** in that case.
The only thing I excelled at in life
was drinking, I became a black
belt equivalent even got a special
medal from Alcoholics Anonymous
to prove I was a successful toper.
But whats been my ambition you
may be asking! Suicide, believe it
or not, but as in everything else, I
have failed, because I’m a quitter.
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2021
How often does the amnesia
of a nation need reminding

Prepackaged views microwave
morsels of consumable bulletins

Headlines are furrows on
the forehead

And because comfort zones
have never been breached

People are unquestioning
god still exists to many

Disbelieving has been bred
out of the multitudes

Who was, or, is it, is, Assange &
what did he do, to whom, when?
Ryan O'Leary Apr 2020
Ambition
                Aspiration
Daze
                   Delusion
Fantasy
                          Goal
Hallucination
                          Haze
Hypnosis
                      Marvel
Notion
                           Plan
Stupor
                       Trance
Wonder
                        Vision
Yearning

N I G H T M A R E
Ryan O'Leary Apr 8
Rip Van Winkle epitomises
the expression very well.
Trump said we must all take
the medicine, so let the
rapid eye movements begin,
besides, it is a good way
to stimulate the vagus nerve.


Ps

DT’s
Ryan O'Leary Jan 2020
First thing that has come
into your head is "Coke",
well, it just goes to show
how subliminally prone
your minds have become.

Ameri(cans) is actually
a metaphor, but not to
do with aluminium tin's
for holding liquid sugar
consumed by air heads.

What had been assumed
for over a century, now,
was, their ability to do as
they wished, to whom
whenever from whence.

Vietnam was their stark
reminder of cannot's, next
came Afghanistan, then it
Kim Jung Un and now at
last comes Iran, who can!

          Allah Akbar.
Ryan O'Leary Aug 2019
Yesterday, I had occasion to
measure a piece of glass for
a window in an ensuite chez
moi. Having dropped my
measuring tape between the
cavity wall, I was forced to
improvise, by using two bits
of wood. The width being
less then the height, I added
the second piece by means of
a *****. Therefore achieving
both dimensions by a simple
pivoting of the short arm.

The glazer said it was the first
time he had encountered this
form of lateral and vertical
thinking from the same mind.

In France, back in medieval
times, builders used Baguettes
to measure everything, as they
were exactly a metre in length.

Today, anyone familiar with
renovating old buildings in
France, will confirm this story
as the permutations of 100 cm's
is visible in every opening.
Ryan O'Leary Jan 2020
Photo censor cells  
          turn street lights off
crows land on wires
             they're not stupid.
Ryan O'Leary May 2023
.            Am I A Terrorist

                          ?

     Somebody once told me that I

     have an ability to incite people

    to light a fuse even detonate a

    bomb by just reading my poetry.


    But I am a vegetarian, yet, not a

  solitary person has been seduced

    by my passive humanitarianism,

     that, despite furnishing recipes.


   I don’t know anything at all about

explosives, I have never wounded a

pheasant, snared a rabbit, or hooked

  a fish, but it is true, my pen bleeds.
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2018
Can you imagine being told
by no less than four publishers
of repute, that they could not
print the manuscript, about my
life in The Luberon village of
Lacoste, because, in doing so,
they would be aiding and
abetting, in my ******, by
        The Provençals !

So, I have decided to go with
a self press and commit suicide !
Coming to a book store
near you in 2019.
Ryan O'Leary Feb 11
Gestation destination
Canal obstruction
Breech crossways
Liquids passing
Full term
Induced forced
Contractions
Contractions
Push push push

Congratulations
It’s a buoy
It's a buoy

Otherwise known
As a floater

Flush.
Ryan O'Leary Jan 2024
.  Atheists are anti-semitic

    by not recognising God,

   it's a blatant denial in the

existence of chosen people.
Ryan O'Leary Apr 2020
The earth shows up
those of value and
those who are good
for nothing, this is
why Coronavirus
is karma but for all
except the chosen
ones whom by God's
wishes need not wear
any form of face masks.

              <>     <>
                    ^
          ----[   o  ]----
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2019
The Scots are loyal to the crown
and the half crown, herein lieth,
their dilemma. For be it not, a choice
wherein the spoils of association,
outweigh that, which be a desire of
nationhood at the peril of isolation
as borne by their Celtic Kin across
the Irish sea, where no such thought
of referendum were given consideration,
then don no more the skirts of ridicule
and raze Balmoral to the ground.
Ryan O'Leary Apr 29
If someone was to hand you
your life in a jig saw puzzle
the first thing you would do
is assemble a perimeter cage,
then you would try to piece it
together from the faded and
damaged images on the box.

As you put the last fragment
to complete the picture you
suddenly get the idea of the
exercise and that was, that it
makes no difference, you had
a second chance and just like
the first time, you fcuked it up.
Ryan O'Leary Apr 22
It is a strange evolution
but there again, nature
ordains that which it is
deeming necessary for
survival of the species,
as from river to the sea.
Ryan O'Leary Sep 2021
There comes a time when we are
all confronted by something or other.

Many people choose their chalenges
imagine the hunger strikers.

What about people on death row
not knowing from one day to the next.

Our destinies are unavoidable, we
wake and begin our daily battles.

Darkness and sleep are an escape for
some, but nightmares exist for others.

Some have fragile minds sensitive perhaps
is a better definition, insomnia saves them.

Daymares are far less frightening than
their nocturnal counterparts.

Sleepwalkers high tail it after they ****
the bed during their amphibious dreams.
Ryan O'Leary Apr 2021
Only palindromes can go
the wrong way and get
away with it, rear running
words spells disaster and
but for dyslexics, all others
have no sympathy, viewing
them as absolute utter idioms
that deserve to be marginalised
when they have tail on collisions
with hard backs after ignoring

                 THE END
Ryan O'Leary Jan 23
There is a rainbow arc
rising and falling over
the skirting board.

The Milky Way can be
seen further up the wall,
a switch of Bakelite is Mars.

North facing in mildew
valley and no damp proof,
of course.

Double glazing adds to the
sporosity, it’s a hermetically
sealed fungal factory.

Mould as old as the hills of
blocked sunlight and wind that
shakes the barley never blows.
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2024
Nocturnal        Demons

Melatonin and Cortisol
are a pair of tom cats
  prowling in the dark
   alleys of our minds.

Occasionally they get
into a (fight) but not
until one takes (flight)
does the fracas cease.


Ps

I suffer from night fear
so I write from experience.
In my case, it is not terrors
whilst sleeping, this occurs
when I wake.
Robin Williams suffered from
it as do millions of people.
Research what Williams wrote
on his AA book, google it.
Ryan O'Leary Apr 10
According to Wikipedia it
is an occurrence which is
not aided by human hand.

This means the Big Bang
Theory certainly qualifies.

But for those who dispute
it & insist that it was God
made the world, then they
must accept he’s responsible
for everything that happens
here, therefore he has to be
held accountable for The H.

He always hurts the ones he
loves, the ones he shouldn’t
hurt at all, even Palestinians.
Ryan O'Leary Aug 2020
Genuflecting Paddy.
Ryan O'Leary Sep 2018
The Doctor asked
his mother if Willie
was a Vegan!

He is B12 deficient
and would you look
at the colour of him,

he's beyond The Pale.
Ryan O'Leary Jun 2018
Morphine for the masses
because I've been hurting
you with my conscience.

In the hall of mirrors one
can be distorted beyond
all personal recognition.

But better than that, in the
mind we can even make
ourselves disappear.

Cultivating amnesia is a
a beam me up Scotty type
of evading mechanism.

One ostrich can do what
normally takes at least
three monkeys to achieve.

So go on, turn a blind eye
lower the volume and be
sure you tell nobody this!
Ryan O'Leary Dec 2022
. Thought tormented mind

       pain pierced heart

            tortured soul.


     Hide this dementing

    daylight, inhale utopia,

    ****** an eternal now.
Ryan O'Leary May 8
serial ash on girth 2 exits
Ryan O'Leary May 3
Fact’s are sacred
& it’s why scared
hides in a red sac.
Ryan O'Leary Dec 2018
I looked at all the
permutations of
the word poem.

My favourite, of
course, is Mope!

When I mope, I
tend to always
write a Poem.
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2024
U K with F C ED
Ryan O'Leary Mar 3
It was a maze & mystery
composed in jigsaw bits,
pieces of scrabble, cards,
no title, yet I knew it was
a poem about Gen-iu-s of
alcohol, in a cryptic form,
but 2 letters were mis-i-g?
Ryan O'Leary Oct 2021
-  -  - A - H -

  I CAN SEE
   WHAT IS
  MISSING
    FROM
     YOUR
   EMP-T-Y
    HEART
        OF
    STONE.
Ryan O'Leary Aug 2022
Analogy


I wonder about waves, turbulent

  tides, insurgent surf, clamorous,

    capricious. Hens cackle after

      an egg lay, but sea **** !
Ryan O'Leary Dec 2018
If one were to compare
England to France as in
Capitalism to Socialism,
permit me to analogise.

For this, I will use nature
as the yardstick, a squirrel
and a cuckoo.

Yes, the squirrel will amass
more nuts than it requires
for Winter, but one must
consider, durations differ!

The Cuckoo as you
can see is representing
La France and Socialism.

This bird has no ethics,
morals or qualms, about
ejecting fellow species
and squatting their nests.

Parasites of the lowest
common denominator.

Les Francaises in a nutshell!
The French are lazy,
forever complaining,
spilling milk and
surrendering.
Ryan O'Leary Dec 2023
You can never stop the wind

   that shakes the barley.


                  <>

If one looked horizontally at

a field of barley, it resembled

a standing army of the British

Empire, (metaphorically).


The invisible wind which had

the ability to taunt and tilt and

haunt, was in fact the I.R.A.


The analogy can be made of

the Israeli Defence Forces in

their effort to fight/find Hamas.


The aerial bombing of Gaza

was futile, because Hamas

are invisible just as the IRA.


Who would have thought

that a population similar to

Gaza collapsed and Empire.


Israel despite all their bombs

and planes and tanks and guns,

will be brought tio their knees.
Ryan O'Leary Aug 2018
If I, had had, a turkey,
         for Christmas, I’d have
           saved the wishbone.
        On Dec 31st, we could
          pull it apart together.

              I’m a vegetarian,
           mind you, that does
         not mean I don’t have,
      a new yearn for something.
Could we improvise, or simulate?
Ryan O'Leary Feb 2021
How do farts know
there is a cul de sac
at the end of the bed?
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2019
At a dinner dance for dogs at
Derrybeg in County Donegal,
a sign at the door instructed
each and every species, to
undo their *** holes and hang
them in the cloakroom on
hooks provided.

This was of course, as a result
of the previous years mess on
the dance floor.

All the dogs respected the
request and everything was
going fine, without incident,
until a Dalmatian got into an
argument with a Dachshunde.

During the fracas, a kerosene
lamp was knocked to the floor,
before long, the hall was ablaze.

Smoke filled the corridors, panic
set in, barking howling is all one
could hear as all the dogs rushed
to the cloakroom picking up the
first ******* they could find.

That is why, to this day, in Ireland,
one can see canines in the parks
sniffing other dogs derrieres in
an effort to find their own.
Ryan O'Leary May 2024
.             Interpreting Perspectives


   “ The only path to peace is political "

If so, why is the only path to politics, war?

Here we are at the old wives tale junction!

       “ Two wrongs don’t make a right “

       Ok then, let us look at an analogy!

    Imagine there are two cigarette lighters,

     one has no gas and the other no flint.

      Time for some lateral thinking here.

    What if, one presses the BIC pedal of

the one with gas and flints with the other.

     Viola eureka, primitive man make fire.

       Without the IRA there would be no

               Good Friday Agreement.

     Without Hamas, there would be no

      recognition of a Palestinian state,

  the world would have remained silent.

          Let’s face it, Violence Worked.

             Two wrongs make a light.
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 ****** "
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2020
A couple of Pisces who by
coincidence were Gemini's
decided to get the gills and
go over to Finn's who was a
schizophrenic called Leo, his
wife was a Virgo from down
under or at least she said she
was, they both liked Aquarius
so they were preparing a move
to Aquitaine near Bordeaux
because they found Mallow
way too wet, hence an anomaly.
Ryan O'Leary Jun 2020
Knee **** Reaction.
Ryan O'Leary Aug 2018
President Joko Widodo.

Indonesian symbol Garuda
  is a mythical type phoenix
  akin to Icarus both extinct.

  Joko Widodo also known
   as the bird-man of Bali
   told Abbot go fly a kite.
Ryan O'Leary Apr 1
Narcissus objected to
listen to the voice and
harmony of Echo so he
went to the lake to see
his beautiful reflection.

It was image V sound.

Several days passed &
he was transformed to
a flower which bore his
name, then Echo came
by with a scissors, and.


Ps
And = amputated
Narcissus’s   ****
Ryan O'Leary Dec 2020
No no, he was not shot in
the back, he was shot in
the black of night because
veteran officer Adam Coy
suffers from a nocturnal  
acoustic disorder which
like Bats, he can, without
the sounds of surrender
identify race and detect a
metal object (IE Car) thus
sending a message to his
finger to "Spur The Trigger"
known as "The Roy Rogers"
syndrome back in the days.



Ps.

American Racism is alive
and well, the N people are
iggers and will always be.
I wake up every morning
and thank the lord that I
am neither Black nor British.
Ryan O'Leary Aug 2018
Morphine for the masses
because I've been hurting
you with my conscience.

In the hall of mirrors one
can be distorted beyond
all personal recognition.

But better than that, in the
mind we can even make
ourselves disappear.

Cultivating amnesia is a
a beam me up Scotty type
of evading mechanism.

One ostrich can do what
normally takes at least
three monkeys to achieve.

So go on, turn a blind eye
lower the volume and be
sure you tell nobody this!



                                            Ryan. 26th Feb 2015.
                                                
                                               Gaza Holocaust.
Ryan O'Leary Dec 2024
Dews are the mists of Palestine,
their evaporation began Oct 7th
2023, and in December 2024, at
Dublin our fog of evil dissipated.
Ryan O'Leary Jun 2021
Jew'ellers need but one
eye and the gold tooth
is a symbolic emblem for
what’s important to them.
Ryan O'Leary Jan 12
.                     G
               B L.A.Z E
                      Z
                      A

Los Angeles is an act of God

Gaza is an act of Godlessness
Ryan O'Leary Aug 2019
At my grandmother's house
there was a half door, often,
when she was out collecting
eggs, the hens came inside,
flew on to the kitchen table
where the bread crumbs were
left after every meal, she told
us that it was the Angels Share.
Ryan O'Leary Apr 15
I am an ethical vegetarian,
a humanist and naturalist.

I am a poet scholar teacher,
a writer, a mentor, and bard.

I speak for the mute, hear for
the deaf and see for the blind.

I am not a monkey club member,
I’ll never be censored, by myself!
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