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Kalon R Mar 2015
I am Emma Bovary
I am Prufrock
I am the Underground Man
I am Gretta

I'm trapped in my mind, wondering why I am in this situation...
I'm unsure of myself and my feelings...
I needed to dominate but now I realize what I got isn't what I want...
I'm judged by my past and still wanting to re-live my glory days...

I too am Baumer...
I'm fighting but it's time to rest
Oh Dorian! why am I so perfect?

Tomorrow, I'll be at breakfast and won't see the girl who made me feel this way, I'll give up hope
and continue lying saying "I'll elope"

Besides, she'll think I'm ugly and I'll feel alone and ashamed

I too...



Am Decaying on The Inside
"She was eaten up with desires, with rage, with hate. The rigid folds of her dress covered a tormented heart of which her chaste lips never spoke"
On the backs of the women before us
Stands legacy and triumph,
Women like Anna Komnene  
Who saved her father’s reputation, knew the classics,
And supervised hospitals,
Proving you can be royalty and brilliant,
Empress Wu,
The only known empress in early Chinese history,
Who challenged the norms for women liberation,

On the backs of the women before us,
Are the Roasies,
The strong women who joined industry and steel during World War 2,
Doing a man’s job,
Showing women have muscle,
A group known as the night witches
Women who bombed ****’s in the darkest hours,
Showing women can fight,

On the backs of the women before us,
Sacajawea,
Who at 16 trekked the mid-west with Lewis and Clark with a baby on her back,
Proving women can endure,  
Kathrine Johnson,
Who proved to the world gender and color doesn’t matter,
Anyone can use mathematics for the growth of humanity,
Rosa Parks, who looked into the eyes of a white man,
And refused to give up her seat,
Proving that women can revolt,
Nellie Bly,
Who mothered investigative journalism,
Florence nightingale,
Who without her nursing wouldn’t have its roots,

On the backs of the women today,
Is Malala who at 15 was shot for standing up for a girl’s right for education,
Or Gretta Thunberg who at 17 is fighting for a greener earth,

On the backs of the women before us,
And on the backs of the women today,
Are women showing girls that tomorrow and the day after,
They can look into the eye of a man and say
Try me.. I’ll go far
Written in honor of women's history month
Ryan O'Leary Sep 2019
Bet you thought I was
going to say Garbo, but
no, it is all garbage.

Think, who aims to benefit
from this manipulation of
a fabricated hot house hoax?

What do the powers that be
want to market just now and
there lies the answer to it all.

When lead piping was deemed
a danger and copper introduced,
plumbers worldwide protested.

When horses were done away
with and replaced by the internal
combustion engine, mass protests.

This is just another case, a brief
surge of consciousness by the
manufacture of consent people.

Follow the money and there one
will find who is actually behind
this opiation of the gullible hordes.

Ps.

The protests against cars stopped.
Oil shortages ushering in electric cars.

Copper is now going out of fashion
due to scarcity, replaced by plastic.

It is all a managed evolution, the
climate changers are being used.

Nobody could convince anyone in
Ireland, that the world is getting warmer.

Ryan Air hauls people out of here daily
in their thousands, to the sun.
Jae Elle Sep 2018
tears in front of
the ancestors' tomb
again

you'd think at
twenty-eight
I'd learned all my
lessons
but Lynn & Gretta's
littlest girl
lost the chips she thought
she'd win

stuck between an atrophied,
near-calcified heart
& a hard place
good lord,
she's still fighting to
salvage face

to keep her name

but all these pitfalls
are none but hers
to blame

never a gambler


but ever still playing
the game
guy scutellaro Sep 2024
the mirror runs the length of the bar.

we down our drinks
and the bar empties out into the street.

across the street
the unemployment building is burning.

the tender, passionate flames
sets the night on fire.

blue eyes looks up,
she says to me,
"wanta go on a date?

i'll make all your dreams come true,
wouldn't you
love to love me?" she hooks her arm
through my arm and smiles,
"$20 and up depending on what you want."

"what's you're name?"

"Marie."


Gretta and Marie are kissing and turn
to me and give me that
Cheshire cat smiling


and for a moment
the ****** of the impossible
when the 5th floor collapses on the 4th floor
the flames shot up
like the 4th of July

and everyone cheers.


but then the fire engines come.

we file across the street
and into the bar,
unhappy faces,
angry faces stare.
the party was over.

and the mirror runs the length the length of the bar.
Ryan O'Leary Dec 2019
Is there anything to protest
about, we seem to be the only
ones not out there braking up
the place and looting.

Are we in our riot minds or
is there something holding
us back.

Global Cooling is something
we could complain about, it
is not fair, Ireland is being left
out of the rise in temperatures.

Soon we will be ******* the
Police, The Hiber Nation will
wake up and do wreck, like in
France, Hong Kong and India.

The only difference being, we
will be needing the umbrellas
for the rain.

We need an Irish Gretta to
increase our CO2 emissions
so that we can grow Lemons.
july hearne Jan 2020
little autistic gretta thunberg
totalitarians so much totalitarian
not exactly wild or stallion
just the  congenital deformities of miniature horses
riding in underneath a master named stalin
Ryan O'Leary Sep 2019
Install a bidet Gretta,
use your fingers if
you're serious about
saving the planet.

Walk, never fly, don't
burn any fossil fuel,
Mother Theresa should
have been left to rot.
Ryan O'Leary Dec 2019
Mallow is high, built on a
hill overlooking the River
Blackwater, a tributary of
The Atlantic Ocean, it is a
liquid schizophrenic which
has the temperament of an
Italian on a Vespa before his
first shot of sugary LavAzza.

Circa 950 AD. an Irish Celt
deduced that every time he
built a hut near the edge of
this oscillating reservoir, he
developed hydrophobia.

His name was Willie Eaton,
a plaque to his wisdom can
be seen below the water line
under the arch of the bridge.

Those flooding's existed long
before Global Warming, so I
have no idea why in the name
of **** anyone is listening to

           Gretta Humbug.
Ryan O'Leary Sep 2019
Padraigh Colum in his poem
A Drover, says,
" Loud words, dark faces and
the wild blood behind ".
Obviously being followed, not
like sheep and people who will
go where driven without question.
The climate changers are a typical
example of a media managed event
that has been conjured up by those
who run the world.

She                   P                    Herd.

What a brilliant con job this one is.

                       LOL

                  Ha Ha Ha.

She                     P                  Herd?

Gretta         Populous           Sheep.

Bah                 Bah                  Bah.
V


Instead of having rotten tomatoes thrown at him,
or being impeached , or having grapes,
put into his Wellingtons,
Donie Trump is to be Knighted,' Arise Sir Donald Trump'
  Knight of the Garter, he pulled up his socks ,
just in time.

In one of their first unofficial unpaid duties,
Prince Harry and 'Muggins' Markle will lay the blade,
of a reproduction Chinese sable,
on each side of Donald's  transfat padded shoulders,
and declare him ' Knight of the Garters'.

Sir Donald , will be humbled by the experience,
and ask Prince Harry, if he can keep the Chinese sable,
to use it on , Gretta Thunberg, the next time he meets her.

  Holly Barrett
Ryan O'Leary Jan 2020
HP should devote a special
site for the polluters.

In that allocated area where
they off load their *******,

ink gleaners would come
with brushes, erasers and

abortion vacuum's, so that
early terminations could be

performed before readers
are optically contaminated.

Failing that, some form of
Trip Advisor ™ system

could be put in place beside
the names of those poetic

imposters who should be
rated by real poets and thus

save the planet unnecessary
i cloud congestion which is

contributing to Global Warming
time wasting and discontent.


Signed: Gretta Thonberg.

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