Life Bat Poems

"Bat Crazy 5"


Some say

she was batsh** crazy
life hits the windscreens 
in the labyrinth of life
that way

the foot remains pinned
to the metal, fast to the floor
full...

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Within the confines of my nearest Zoo,
There’s a place that’s off limits – it’s not for you.
It’s where the animals go for therapy,
As animals have...

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There lives a puppy named Weasel
She's almost big as a diesel
Artists paint her on their easel
She can be found digging up bones

Her heart is as...

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Bat and Gat were reading one day:
just too rainy outside to play.
They had opened a book;
pretty soon they were hooked,
and they both got carried away.

Curiosity...

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Life is not cricket: though a game of cricket reflects life 
It portrays real-life conditions; from cradle to urn 
Starting with toss of a coin;...

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"Broken"

"Broken" Like a pane of glass 
Struck by a ball while playing catch
By a hitter as he steps up to bat

"Broken" Like a heart
By someone...

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If I could get ahold of one thing 
At one time
Than I'd be okay.
But life is a blizzard.
The idea of holding anything,
Like wearing water as...

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In the darkness of the midnight,
A messenger draws near.
Bringing solemn tidings,
Spreading tales of fear. 

Black-hearted little demon.
Against the darkened sky. 
Spreads lies and confusion,
To make...

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Once upon a time:
a wet market bat eater
turned humanity into mask wearing
double ply paper hoarding survivalist.
Rapist and assorted ogres were being set free
making room for...

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Vampires
by Michael R. Burch

Vampires are such fragile creatures;
we fear the dark, but the light destroys them...
sunlight, or a stake, or a cross—such common things.
Still, late...

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The silence of the Bat

The bat is silent, still
Awake in the dark, never resists the sun
Even on the human's table
or becomes auspicious decoration
It remains silent
...
Humans...

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It’s early August and the air is dry, I shake my head and step outside,
My small dark eyes  seem so bemused, everything I see,...

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Some people have dogs and cats.
But the pet that I chose is a ban.
He's very beautiful and his name is Mel.
When people see him, they...

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For crying out loud you came into my life like a bat out of hell, no time to think, no time to go slow, I...

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O ' My Master, Bat my hat with your pat
My hat is my ego, my arrogance
Which I rare take off when enter near Thee
You being...

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