Best Rat A Tat Poems

Rat-a-tat, Rat-a-tat, Rat-a-tat-tat
  sounds of war, tattered fife, ragged drum

In feathered cap, Yankee Doodle went to town
  where he met a clever man named Madison

Wrote up a constitution, though not for everyone
  rights for whites -- but not for blacks or browns...

Now...

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The typewriters tap,
with a rat-a-tat-tat,
like a fourth estate rap
to provide us the pap
(that serves as a snack with a rat-a-tat-tat)
in a newspaper scrap
crammed with meaningless crap
from the editor's yap
(spewing flimflamy flak, booming rat-a-tat-tat)
after gashing a gap
in the daily recap
with a snip in a snap-
sounding thundery...

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Rat a - Tat - Tat; Rat a - Tat- Tat
the drums did roll and beat
the men in their uniforms how they stood 
so tall and trim and neat,
by ranks and files and squads they stood
with weapons, packs and flags
the flower of our nation's youth
did...

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For the Sandy Hook Newtown
children and their mentors

Rondelet: Rat-a-tat-'tat

Rat-a-tat-'tat
Rattle staccato riddle tumble
Rat-a-tat-'tat
Toppled children scatter rat-tat
Innocent voices all tremble
Rifled trillions sure-fire treble
Rat-a-tat-'tat

(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2012...

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Rat-a-tat-tat, hear the gunshots repeat,
children are shooting children in their school.
And yet, gun control bills end in defeat;
corporate America is no fool.

Money matters more than lives; it's a fact;
politicians fear the gun lobby's might.
And do nothing; when school kids are attacked,
except to acknowledge that it...

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New year,… same drummer….. measuring the distance.


12/29/2018

New Year One Liner Poetry Contest
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woodpecker drumming
i hate this band…his solo
rooftop performance

2/16/2022...

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When a jackhammer’s outside your door
It’s a sound that you cannot ignore.
You can’t focus or think
And your brain’s on the brink
Of a meltdown, like never before.

For the rat-a-tat-rat-a-tat noise
Is a sound that not merely annoys.
It gets under your skin
‘Til it seems like it’s been
Always there,...

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Like a meteor shower
Hailing down from heights unknown
TRUTH bombs dropping every hour
Into a heart where WORD has been sown

Opening up new possibilities
Unimaginable til now
The VOID in every door jam
Beckoning rhythm to bow 

Sorrow and grief want to dance
With depression upon the back
Swing, two three, jump,...

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