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Ratchet Poems - Poems about Ratchet

Jofradamus can see the future

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Oi Oi ..saveloy…caps do doff..bless Joffy boy…with injury woes and blows…

From the off some did scoff…Joff can no longer bowl for toffee…clearly not really…

Not being coy but some of those pr...
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Categories: ratchet, sports,
Form: Free verse

Different Whips

...Lil mama in a Q50 infinity 
Known to handle drama
Pulls up any vicinity
know a broad in a Amg
we hit the drive through theater 
And we blow on trees
I know a hottie in a Beamer 
She fiends for...
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Categories: ratchet, car, funny love, hip
Form: Verse



Rather than crank up the heat

...Rather than crank up the heat...

and ratchet up global warming
like bubbling vegetable stew
with tsk... tsk... heard
courtesy Greta Thunberg,
who would utter "how dare you..."

I bundle with...
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Categories: ratchet, adventure, angel, appreciation, childhood,
Form: Rhyme

About gods of timing belts and spark plugs

...“Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate", most frequently translated as "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here". A. Dante, 14th century Italian poet

They sway the power over mere mortals
They drop ...
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Categories: ratchet, car, humor, humorous, life,
Form: Rhyme

Sans Stilettos

...Nancy took a tumble
And went falling down the stairs.
The slickness of the marble
Must have caught her unawares.

Yet who at 84 years old
Wears shoes with 4-inch heels?
Though since a hip repl...
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Categories: ratchet, change,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberLSD trip

...In the sixties, a mere chemical fooled Timothy Leary
He became a missionary, to the jaded, the weary
He thought he had the answer to the question:
how to get the key to the doors of perception.

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Categories: ratchet, addiction, confusion, drug, freedom,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberTalisa Shaw 8 22 1972 Milwaukee strippers with badges committed fraud bank of america

...Unafraid of talisa shaw 
fraud in Tampa 8 22 1972 
back off did you forget 
you cashed a check on 
my behalf for 49thousand 
dollars then withdrew the 
funds to deposit into a 
chase bank of A...
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Categories: ratchet, allah,
Form: Kyrielle

Overlooked

...Overlooked-by Dominique Smith

Can you cry the ocean so those in need can come over with a boat? No but I ca- Can you fix a window with the scraps of band-aid? No,  But I ca- Can you burn like the ...
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Categories: ratchet, 8th grade, anger, anti
Form: Free verse

Umpteenth heat wave since onset of summer sizzles Delaware Valley today July 16th, 2024

...Umpteenth heat wave since onset of summer
sizzles Delaware Valley today July 16th, 2024

Said geographical area composed of counties
located in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
South Jersey, Delaware,...
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Categories: ratchet, america, earth, grave, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOverheard in the Ob-gyn Ward

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   Hey, ‘Nurse Ratchet,’ handle with care! ~
  
     The next Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is forming in there
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Categories: ratchet, birth, care, future, pride,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberGrateful for your Love-

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Grateful for your love
Ratchet old cottonwood tree looks dried out and dead to me
Winters temperatures scavenger cold long Robin perched above
O' behold what a wonderful God who provides for the...
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Categories: ratchet, adventure, appreciation, how i
Form: Light Verse

Gentrified

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Ratchet Gentrification 
Sneaky Dislocation 
A People Sank Deeper Into An Abyss of Desperation 
No Lubrication....
In Summation....
Screwed... 
Without Consideration
of The Deprivation of Una...
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Categories: ratchet, community, corruption,
Form: Rhyme

Ma's Soup

...'Dinner won't be long, Dear.'

Burt puffed up his pillows and squeezed one out.

'Better wash your hands, now'.

The armchair smothered his glee.

Wallaby faggots, 

Brown rice juices,

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Categories: ratchet, appreciation, drink, family, farm,
Form: Free verse

Crossroads

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Crossroads to where life began
Fear of dark cold round me again

In the twilight before the morn
Scattered grass iced, forlorn
Silence in the air ash orangy dawn
Fire burnt out like clouds in...
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Categories: ratchet, allegory,
Form: Free verse

I Must Be Black

...Because once a time in a round mud hut
at the edge of the bottomless of pits,
I know that a three- or four-year-old roars with his gut
And he wipes snot with a broken jersey that barely fits

Be...
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Categories: ratchet, anger, black african american,
Form: Quatrain

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