Nenagh College, Co. Tipperary

Walking Home 

I hate walking home because of how 

old men look at me in case they 

follow me or if someone kidnaps me

and I will never get seen again.


Patience

A fly keeps circling what I’m trying to say

A drip counts louder then the clock

My patience thins like cheap gray thread

Snapping at the smallest knock.


Things that PMO

Uhm

Uh

I don’t

Know what pisses me off

Uhm

Uh

I don’t

Know why I’m pissed off

I dislike school

I dislike exams

I dislike America

They piss me off

I dislike beans

I dislike mushrooms

I dislike beetroot

They taste off

I hate AI

It steals jobs

It should

not be a knob

I hate NFTs

They are stupid

People who make them

Are pieces of shit

But in the end

While I’m pissed off

I go home

And I breathe

I sit in my bed

With my mouth full of shit

Then I remember the things

That pissed me off.


More

Being misjudged for what I want to be when I’m older. 

People expect me to go into a job that’s hard at work 

Like the guards or some security job. But I actually 

I want to be an actor and a singer when I’m older. 

I was the main role in our school musical this year and 

That has driven me to become an actor and a singer. 

I want to show people in years to come that I can be 

Whatever I want to be and show people I am more 

Than meets the eye.


Being Myself

Told to be someone who I’m not

All to be accepted by a few “friends”

My flaws and imperfections may never come out

Worried to be offended

 

Sensitive souls aren’t made for teenage boys

They’re made for poet laureates

Being myself is the only way i can be

I can’t be anyone else.


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I hate how men stare at me in a weird way

It makes me want to walk the opposite 

Way i cant walk home alone and feel safe

I just want to feel brave

every time they beep or whistle

I feel more and more little.


Afraid

When i walk i get afraid

I want to hide and to turn away

Men will lurk men will watch

I feel like they should be caught

I try to shut them out

But then they scream and shout

Men are the reason we are afraid

Afraid of shadows afraid of shame

Afraid to move on with life each day

They need to stop

To learn to behave

To make our world feel happy and safe.


Family

Trying to fit with others is as hard

Fitting with people alike is comforting

Family is where you fit the most.


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I feel that I’m mentally challenged. 

Anytime I try something I feel that 

Everybody else is able to do it faster and better.


Walking Home Late

I hate walking late because of older men or 

Just creepy men in general at night you never 

Know what that man that passes you may be 

Thinking or what his intentions are that night 

Maybe he’s out on a late walk or maybe he’s 

Looking for something or someone or it could 

Be he is looking for a vulnerable woman.


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I dislike and feel uncomfortable 

Walking alone or around older men.


10 Things I Hate About You

I hate your personality I hate 

Your friends and their opinions

I hate how you think about others 

Girls and never consider me, I hate 

How you lust over your past and 

Don’t think of the future, but most 

Of all, I hate how I know you will never change.


Things That Annoy Me

When people rush me

When I’m trying how to figure something out

yup bros disrespectful people my year head

People that beg for lifts home people who talk shit.


Hopeful Heart

In the morning light I wake, With sleepy eyes 

And small mistake, I take my coffee, strong and sweet,

And walk alone in a noisy street. The sky is blue, 

Or sometimes gray, Like how I feel from day to day,

I think of dreams I want to chase, But life goes fast, it is a race.

I miss the sun of my old town, The narrow streets, 

The castle brown, But still I try, I do my best,

With a hopeful heart inside my chest.


Unheard

Its a tough life being a teenage girl these days,

Whatever interests you have are judged and 

Comment about no matter what. I get punched, 

Kicked, tripped, and no matter how many times I 

Tell them to stop, I feel that my voice goes unheard.


Judged

I hate people who have an opinion on you now 

On something that happened in the past I dislike 

Being judged on this that I like doing I hate when 

People comment bad things about my things i hate 

Being put in situations that I have to pick a side in

I hate being disliked making me loose interest in 

Something I enjoy doing I dislike when people 

Always insult your appearance.


Shine

The lake is like glass,

Dromineer’s sunsets shine.


I Hate

I hate people who have opinion on you now on something 

That happened in the past I dislike being judged on something 

Thats in the past I hate being put in situations were you have to pick 

A side I hate how i’m judged on my mistakes and not my successes

I hate that I get attached to people too easily.


Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time,

A girl was born

She was just learning 

to read and write, She blinked, 

and time flew by so quickly 

that she didn’t even notice

that in a year she would

I have to enter university.


Things That Annoy Me

Men being viewed as only wanting 

To score people who are too big for 

Their boots men who are way too cocky

People who talk behind your back people 

That changes their personality around different friends. 


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I want drinks and fishing with lads

There is no better feeling

When your lad is catching a fish.


Alone

I hate the nights in lonely streets when 

You walk alone and you feel a presence

When you walk alone and you feel their 

Breath on your nape when you are a 

Woman and alone in the street.


Being Myself

If I could try being myself

Would I become a joke?

I sit and ponder

what it would evoke.


Special

From the county of blue and gold

So many stories have went untold

Some so good they could never be told

Some that untold hide their true selves

To be afraid of being labelled so weak

To the point they never want to speak

Life throws them up and down but never 

In a straight line to make them so unique 

And so special they would make someone weep.


I Like

I like chicken burgers

I like my bed

I don’t like boys

They hurt my head

 

Their jokes are bad

And they can’t take a hint

If they could leave me alone

That would be mint.


Love

Love comes in many shapes and sizes,

Maybe love is the girl who you shared 

your deepest secrets with, maybe love 

Is about the boy who said he loved you 

Then disappeared, maybe love is the summer 

Sun beaming down on you as you walk with ease ,

Maybe love is the small chats you have with your 

Friends, but love comes in all shapes and sizes 

You just need to be looking in the right place to find it ,

So don’t ever feel like your not loved because even tho 

It’s not that boy from the summer or the girl you trusted 

With your life love is all around you.


Roses are Red

Roses are red violets are blue

The sky is blue grass is green

The sun is probably yellow.


Saturday Night

I loved Saturday night 

And I’m sick of all these 

Assignments I have to do.


Duel

I hate school it makes me 

feel like a fool all the lads 

start to drool love is not the 

right tool 6 hours  just sitting on 

a stool all the boys think their 

so cool chilling at the pool

they just think they rule

I will win in every duel.


I Don’t Know

I don’t know much about myself,

I don’t know much at all.

I have this form of a shell,

But I just want to ball.


The World is Gone

I am sick of everything including 

this school system and my 

laptop  bringing  me bad news

The world is gone to shite.


Imperfections

Days go by as the people say hi,

Not revealing their inner truth why?

The struggle of expressing themselves,

Is something familiar within ourselves,

A universal issue about acting and representing,

You. We string up masks, Pretending and lying to 

Ourselves, Seeking validation from people we 

Wouldn’t take advice from. Sadly impressions for 

Others are more valuable then standing up for 

What you truly are.


I Hate

I hate how I feel alone because I 

Think people are talking about me

I hate how boys act in big groups

I hate how I feel uncomfortable 

Walking by myself I hate how boys

Treat the ‘Odd one out ‘ I hate how you 

Treated me and I hate how I let you get 

Away with it and that you will never change.


A Typical Man

I was talking so someone 

I cared about

And I wasn’t happy

I said some words I would regret

I treated them unfairly,

And was told I was “A typical man”,

It was then I felt a change,

Like a veil had been lifted,

I didn’t mean any of what i said,

I let emotions get to me,

And had emotionally hurt the one person

Who I didn’t want to hurt at all,

My apology led to tears,

And then I had the fear,

That they would think of me as “A typical man”,

For the rest of my years.


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I cant be at this leaving cert 

Pressure I’m just to busy I just 

Do the work not to get giving out to.


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Oisin Ryan is my name,

Saturday night is my game,

Beating pallets is my aim,

I am the king,

I run the school.


Coffee in Hand

Walked in late and took the bait,

Fell through the floor, into the front door

Coffee in hand still warm with steam,

Like id steeped out from a dream i took 

A nice morning sun on face, calm on the 

Street with stride in my step and pride in 

My heart. But registration starts and nine 

And the clock screams louder than the time

Coffee in hand is still warm like my face.


Who I Want to Be

By age 7

I didn’t know much about me

But I knew exactly what could be perceived about 

Me, My height, my hair, my stomach

Everything I couldn’t control was needed from me

I became quiet, a pleasure to teach

That was my mask built

Hidden behind silent crues for help

That couldn’t be seen,

Left on my own

What could become of me?

With age I grew I learnt about me

My worth couldn’t and shouldn’t be deemed 

By society everything I once was so ashamed of, 

I am now exactly who I want to be.


John Murphy

John Murphy cup is coming home

Where players memory’s are sown

Eoin Dervan getting no game

And im getting all the fame

I’m about to score a hat trick

From a quick free kick quick 

Knee slide to show my pride

Because John Murphy is coming home.


Joy

Struggle is foul, when no-one’s around, everyone’s 

Proud, and yet I cant withstand, its difficult to be happy, 

Without somebody, i just need a voice, to become my own, 

And stand up for my own, love is hard and quite profound, 

But i know that i can only find joy on my own, family is 

Everything, yet silence is hard, i need to work on my joy.


She

She walks in streets with broken light, She wants her voice to 

shine so bright. Not more, not less, just be the same, Not only

silence, not only shame. Feminism is not to fight with hate, Is to 

open every closed gate. Girls can dream and girls can try, Have 

big ideas, can touch the sky. In Spain we say “igualdad”, Because 

respect is not so bad. We want a world where all can be free, 

For you, for her, and also for me.


Journey Begins

Engines hum low,

Tyres kiss the road—

A journey begins.


Fishing

I want to go fishing with bros 

who understands each other 

and are usually available

as well as drink kvass, gira.


I Like

I like food and games, i like to relax,

I like playing old games, cus it gives flashbacks

I also like the gym

Because working out feels like win

Coming home to chill, while I

I also drink milk.

 

Days

I eat kebabs to quench my hunger

then I go and buy a burger

Go to gym to stay slim and thin

Lift some weights to climb gates

Play video games through out the night

Then I go turn on the light

Game by night lift by day

Come and see another day


Far From Home

Here I am walking home

From a place far from home

I turn around and see a cone

To realise I’m not alone

I realise I’m not unknown

But just a girl far from home.

 

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