Dark Rat Poems

Rat Catcher

I feel repulsed when he is near, I ought to have compassion
for this cripple, a twisted foot. an arm that does not 
function as...

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A Cornered Rat


No matter what the enemy’s might.
The smallest of beasts will stand and fight.
Whether a cat or a mighty bear.
Confront him only if you...

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Imagine being born into the world as a guinea pig. An experiment that as the ‘master’ of this guinea pig, you have a complete rule...

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Two tiny bulbs 
In the dark
Round, yellowish, shining and protruding
Look like two tanglongs in the dark
But not to play 
They are patrolling hunting eyes 
Waiting...

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7/11/21


Never been the smoothest talker
Got to make the best of it before I need a walker
Had a lot or nothing to offer
Wasn't always worth the...

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Narrative of the Year of Rat

February is like a fierce tiger dashing down the mountain
The trees and the grass were startled
The water in its inherent...

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Black Rat;
        Laying on your stomach in the grass.
Looking so alive by the ant-hill;
    ...

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The saying goes,
“Money makes the world go round”
and yet as I step onto this adult plane
as the initiated guest that I am,
I have come to...

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We're furry and coloured grey, brown, or black
Be-whiskered and sleek and reeking of fat
We'll squeeze through a hole, a gap, or a crack
For rotting flesh...

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Concrete city
A rat race

Blind ghosts covetous
In dark corners
Melancholic
Over dead dreams...

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The Enfeeble
 I feel repulsed when he is near I ought to have 
 compassion for this cripple a twisted foot and
 an arm that...

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scurrying in the dark

looking for some food to eat

avoiding the set trap...

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In Eden's garden long ago
a second story's to be told.
First when Eve took her bite
and Adam fled in such a fright.
But on the ground watching...

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Like sunshine on a cold Spring morning
deceiving our judgment and senses,
the rat manoeuvres through honest lives,
a Machiavellian villain before our eyes.

Sharp pain in our back...

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The rat tiptoed to the house, picks up a thread
While the soft spoken black cat is, still, in bed
Sleepy, but, she is to battle it,...

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