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Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Recluse by dint of circumstance

Proud anonymous troglodytes 
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.

He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny, 
and tetchy ugly villain)   
scurried into dark...

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Categories: ratty, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Little Creepy Dude
At the final stroking of saint Halloween eve, it seems not so long ago,
That my trusty SUV, transport vehicle unceremoniously broke down,
Right outside the local pet cemetery, what a marvelous place to
Spend the spookiest night...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ratty, brother, fantasy, funny, halloween, history, imagery, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Will wonders never cease!?
Will wonders never cease!?

Alternately titled: Last of the fluff
belonging to a Mohican
Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe.

Any resemblance between said unnamed individual
and living persons purely coincidental.

Scads of decades back in the day,
not since this sexagenarian baby boomer
happened...

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Categories: ratty, absence, adventure, analogy, angst, baby, betrayal, birth,
Form: Free verse
Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation
Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation

Outward slovenly appearance bespeaks volumes
wordsworth their weight in gold
(exhumed from the pith
of these lovely bones -
beclothed with mottled skin)
presages afterlife of hellish horror
(think Dante's inferno),
nevertheless a respite from...

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Categories: ratty, 12th grade, absence, age, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Another Day In Dreamland
Another day in dreamland

Wake up.  Watch the sun ease in the light
like the day before, goin back, and on some more.
Cuddle with the reasons why while I collect
my unconscious back from the sky.
Okay, get...

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Categories: ratty, dream,
Form: Free verse



Adolescent infatuations never consummated
Adolescent infatuations...never consummated

Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe; meaning yours truly actually a virtually married Pennsylvania man,...

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Categories: ratty, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
I aim to live in the here ahem hair and now
I aim to live in the here (ahem hair) and now...

despite entrenched familiar
obsessive compulsive disorder behavior
distracting me courtesy
countless what if scenarios,
particularly before undergoing
voluntary drastic makeover
as iterated in a previous poem,
and briefly recounted here
as foregoing Samson...

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Categories: ratty, 7th grade, absence, abuse, age, america, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rum N Raisin 5 - No Need To Cook
Rum felt a chill which he couldn’t explain
Had mum left the freezer door open again?
He went to the kitchen and muttered, “Aha!”
The freezer door was just a little ajar

Inquisitive kittens, as everyone knows
Would not simply...

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Categories: ratty, cat, food,
Form: Narrative
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised April 19th, 2023
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised April 19th, 2023

IM pen named Pilot Jane A. Rug
who ascribes to writing poetry
as opportunistic, holistic, and cathartic
warming me body electric
courtesy an outsize 
warm brimful...

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Categories: ratty, absence, adventure, april, farewell, fate, heartbroken, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024...

(Any resemblance between the following humorous account and real life circumstance tis purely coincidental).

Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager...

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Categories: ratty, absence, adventure, confusion, humorous, march, missing,
Form: Rhyme
Harumph To Holiday Hoopla Phish Pshaw
Harumph To Holiday Hoopla – Phish Pshaw!

Relieved of fatherhood Saint
Nick schtick found me
to relinquish ratty outfit, and stow away zee bras
like padding and "FAKE flowing beard,
ah...don't remind me,
those well worn faux paws

of each dear deer...

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Categories: ratty, angel, childhood, christmas, conflict, creation, december, jesus,
Form: Political Verse
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised March 10th, 2022
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2022...

Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager in Nigg
(historic county of Ross-shire,
historic region of Ross
and Cromarty, northeast
coast of Scotland).

Somehow postiche...

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Categories: ratty, absence, america, appreciation, beauty, character, england, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Alms Za Try N To Reach Out As Legatee Wannabe
Alms Za Try'n To Reach Out As Legatee Wannabe

Yukon pots sib bully challah me Jude
dish hiss literary panhandler schlepping
along virtual figurative boulevard Asia
brogue kin bloke rattling tin cup aware
how quickly passersby dodge away as
if I...

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Categories: ratty, dream, fate, happiness, hope, humanity, humorous, joy,
Form: Narrative
Dream Delayed Part 1
Since I was a very small girl I have dreamed of a house.A house chock full of treasures that I would idly rummage through.Here I would find a cupboard full of quilts,beautiful elbow length teal...

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Categories: ratty, family, history,
Form: Free verse
The Saving of Joel Claughtrey, Part I
At the remote Carmacks trading post,
during eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
a teenage child, a scared-looking half-breed,
timidly entered through the front door.

Joel Claughtrey barely noticed the young man,
and was far more concerned with whiskey,
he took a long...

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Categories: ratty, adventure, family, father son, lost love, love,
Form: Narrative
Raising the Girl Right, Part Ii
She frowned at him, still dressed in his skins,
then cast her gaze upon sweet Nell.
“Why do you bring a savage with you?
Long, lost, little brother, do tell?”
Prent knew this would be a hard sell.
“She’s your...

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Categories: ratty, discrimination, family, growing up, native american, wisdom,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance First Cell
He/him (ratty, scrawny, 
and tetchy ugly villain)   
scurried into dark recesses of hermitage
averse to cavort, frolic, inure himself
into the duplicitous schemes
capitalized, glorified, popularized

courtesy vanity of Homo sapiens
lest imp of the pervert 
already sacrificed...

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Categories: ratty, age, analogy, animal, appreciation, bible, character, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Nothing of Evermore
War is the art of making a withdrawal at the bank 
With checks written in the blood of patriots 
Spending lives 
Without a care or whim 
Sacrificing body and soul 
Life and limb 
To justify...

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© Eric Nolan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ratty, america, dark, earth, irony, military, violence, war,
Form: Rhyme
For Them
For them.

To her the word love refers to a boy.
Something she yearns for and misses dearly.

The day they met was cold and fraught with January chill.

“Oh, that does seem so long ago.”

That is the untarnished...

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Categories: ratty, inspirational, life, love, day, dream, home, day,
Form: Ballad
Battered Homes and Garbage
Riding the bus to school past an ugly reminder
the tattered trailers next to a construction site
I imagine the way it used to be    
a house
across from a dozen shattered trailers with little...

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Categories: ratty, 7th grade, drug,
Form: Narrative
The Snow That Flurried Like Chatting Kangaroos
The Snow that Flurried like Chatting Kangaroos
Ramah Prince was thinking about Suhail G Faizal again. Suhail G was a remarkable rover with pretty hair and wide lips.

Ramah walked over to the window and reflected on...

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Categories: ratty, 7th grade, absence, africa, animal, appreciation, class,
Form: Rhyme
Facebook As Sounding Board
With a middle name as "Flag this Scapegoat,"
I best not be surprised bullied from cutthroat
villains (supposedly kind hearted facilitators/
moderators, sans Facebook administrators, but
woe whiz me hyperbole 4 lite dramatic affect),

mine psyche stung, when months after...

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Categories: ratty, 11th grade, 12th grade, body, confidence, courage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Goodbye
His small red car, a dent on the left rear side,
   is parked in our driveway, all loaded,  a full tank of gas.
His duffel is crammed with rock-band t-shirts, faded torn jeans,
...

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Categories: ratty, autumn, family, love, old, sister,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bloody Bloomin Rose's
Ah, the bloom was on the Rose
yet, the taint of alcohol and drugs
looms nightmare like behind her baby pink cheeks. 
Porcelain skin tones, raspberry rogue
nails to scratch and lift bits of dirty lucre.

She was clawing...

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Categories: ratty, angst, caregiving, childhood, confusion, dedication, education, familybaby,
Form: Narrative
Boink Goes This Ratty Guinea Pig
Aye pride myself
     being sui generis 
     verb hose subject for a zoologist,
cuz webbed phalanges

     branch handsomely
     from mine...

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Categories: ratty, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things