Best Ratchets Poems

The thunder booms; the rain, it pours.
We're half inside and half outdoors.
A screened-in porch brings Nature close
But not enough to overdose.

And so we sit and mix our tiles*
As Nature ratchets up the dials.
We gaze up at the stormy sky 
And dripping trees, while we stay...

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Black. White. Blue. Pink. Orange. I'll blend in. Tall, short, cold, warm. I'll blend in. She likes to remain calm, she likes to scream or maybe even lean. I'll blend in. People always playing cautious as if they got something to lose. Put in nothing,...

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Just Around the Bend…
                 by Odin Roark

Make-believe knows
Hand in hand
Guardian and child
Never ceases to be
As words meet words
Sentences find paragraphs
Pages turn new discovery
Begetting chapter upon chapter
And then…

Often faith’s endurance...

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A widescreen angle of a steel rimmed fish is rumored to be rhymed with the stark motionless spectacles which are glimmering on the small oak table akin to spare ratchets or a rusted piece of metal. It is imperative on this particular journey to have...

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Born passive
Anger born with clashes
With people never indured poverty but act like they grew up in poor  
classes
Screamin clap $hit where in the middle class yo ass sits
My own cousin questioning my blackness
Society already put me on the black list
While I'm disowned by my...

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Lean predators move along in the morning fog
in their yellow and black suits. 
Wheels spin 
and we hear the brittle hum 
and buzz 
of spokes, cogs and chains.

There is no courtesy bell,
or a chipper “on your right” as they
pass an older woman running on
the trail....

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Cultured, refined, and polished gentlemen?
A thing 
of the past.

Vulgar, brash, and shameless hooligans?
Welcome
to the modern cool.

Elegant, demure, and graceful women?
Controlled, 
imprisoned, and confined.

Immodest, wanton, and uncouth ratchets?
Empowered,
free, and smart.

Who's hands are you
playing into?
It's funny
how 
'feminisim'
and 'empowered women'
is a trick
to further please
male eyes.

Don't be 
fooled.
Society is...

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lemme git down to figurative and virtual brass tacks 
and risk introducing this veritable unknown citizen, 
   who feels Trump stacks

odds against supposedly “making America great again” - 
   vis a vis when pool sharks queue balls with top dollars on...

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Have you ever gone out to the garage, slid behind the wheel of that Bowtie, twisted the key and lit off that big Rat …
Rolled out to the middle of the culdesac, two clicks down into low, left foot over the brake while you slowly...

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She pounds the door once, as hard as she can with her fist;
Mugging, trying to see through her watery eyes, the mist.
She hesitates... then walks in like someone who won't admit defeat;
As she takes a seat her strength and courage quickly depletes.
For once her teacher's...

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Razor-ed Pain
stroked into might
heaving a scream
throwing respite


Aches to be bleed
wound turning green
mauling a body
who’s insides reamed


Soaked into rags
misery Dazzled
break in thought
memories are frazzled


Sockets of agony
ratchets in mind
swirling a tempest 
unhitching inside


Spines of fire
gliding above
touching on heaven
to rainbows of Love...

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Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces 
(INF) Treaty nixed, asper (gasp) infinite
wisdom (quite unsettling) trumpeting  
commander in chief de facto gave green

light, thus signals fasttrack, sans arms 
race activating Armageddon churning 
noble nuclear warheads damn the (not 
so petty) torpedoes full steam ahead,

ramping up military industrial...

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Automobile blues fuels exhausting lament...

Indicator light signaling door(s) ajar
least significant issue concerning
2009 Hyundai Sonata car
applauded craftsmanship darn exemplar,
thus said vehicle deserves favorable avatar,

nonetheless vehicular maintenance
exceeds king's ransom by far
takes lion's share comprising regular
costs of living bar
none versus stream lined budget

regarding: accommodations,
food, medical coverage... far,
and away...

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Schvitzing for more'n sixty hours without electricity
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crosssellusaolc00000003 - for further details)

Courtesy rare derecho
killed four people
nearly forty eight hours ago
power outage affected more than
half a million people
in mid-Atlantic states.

Residents in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
(the poet's hometown)
smack dab within swath.

The storms raced across
keystone and garden states
moving eastward at
over...

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I took a course to manage stress
When I began to teach,
A goal which seemed impossible
And which I’ve yet to reach.

Yet there was just one thing I learned
Which makes a lot of sense – 
Regret and worry only serve
To hurt, at our expense.

For worry ratchets up...

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