Hope Rat Poems

Arizona

My home is in Arizona. 
It is a hot state indeed. 
That is exactly why
I am here.

It has a temperature in the summer
of over one...

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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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Year - end night here waits to birth 
Lovelier princess, vaccine girl   
Mountain high does labour earth  
Squeaking rat now, leaps for...

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Feather 

Life has it's moments
You know, good and the bad
But some of the best times I've ever had
Are those when I've stopped
At the side of...

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The tickling watches, the shaking legs,
Minds full with silent cries and begs
Hearts are homes
Where the oil is ceaseless impatience,
And neighbours – the anxious ancestors.

The dreams,...

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Not a Rat

If I had a cat, 
but I don't and won't, 
but I might still. 

If I had a cat...
I might, take flight, 
from...

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Saša Milivojev - THE RAT



We met at the staircase

It looked at me

I looked at it

It was thinking

I was thinking

It smiled

I smiled

Then I took it in...

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COFFEE
       HOUSE 
       BLUES


I am
in the A.M.
Am I ?
I think I am!

It is...

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The rat in the room
No matter how perfect 
A man builds the house
There is always a posibility 
To have
The rat in the room....

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Fear glowed, burning as on fire,
Everywhere where darkness dwelt, its taunting presence shone as a star,
Her heart was leaping, just almost as if out of...

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(This is illustrated with a Square Wheel wagon being pulled and pushed in a large "rat cage" - making NO progress


Work's like a rat cage.
You...

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A.T. Throw down quick a beat
so hot it melts ya lips so ya can't speak
teach em to pray 
Make em hope it'll rain
cool off the...

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A RAT SEEKING A CAT

Pity pervades
indiscretion invades
safety is a thing of yesterday
and tears are the price we all must pay

I pity the little child who...

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Now here's a story, that is absolutely true
It involves a wife, a possum, and a baby
If you ask me if my wife knows I told...

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