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Bite
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Nina Parmenter
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ratchet, dark, light,
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Wash it away
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Gershon Wolf
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ratchet, environment, pollution, water,
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Captains log star date twenty eighteen
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The Bored Bard
| Light Verse |
ratchet, adventure, crazy, fun, space,
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DMI Instant Response
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Brenda Chiri
| Rhyme |
ratchet, for him, rap, woman,
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Time to Brew
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Suburban Lovechild
| Free verse |
ratchet, adventure, cool, crazy, dance,
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From Whence Comes My Help
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Duncan R. M. Ferguson
| Personification |
ratchet, uplifting,
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Free, But No
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James Fraser
| Rhyme |
ratchet, angst, anxiety, death,
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Rod's spanner
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Lewis Raynes
| Quatrain |
ratchet, funny, work,
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Napalm Rain
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Dramatic Verse |
ratchet, death, pain, truth, war,
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Stereotypical Vie Keen
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John Beam
| Rhyme |
ratchet, angst, art, community, freedom,
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Enthalpy
by Jared Wain Copold
I felt your complete desperation as you exhumed me.
From my deep, dark, damp soil prison, you freed me.
My decomposing heart startled you when...
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Categories:
ratchet, dark, death, life, lost
Ear Wax Art- The Continuing Saga Of The Great Belly Button Lint Dust Fire Of 93'
by Mike Hauser
I've been collecting ear wax
Since the belly button lint dust fire went bad
I lost all my dignity in that fiasco
So ear wax is all that...
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ratchet, funny, humor,
Stigma
by Josefina Costales
[this is about someone in my family who is suffering from PD symptoms]
They look at him but he feels
their smiles never really reach
their...
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Categories:
ratchet, angst, pain,
Recollections from the golden Cree I
by john fleming
I know of a river of more than average
Sorts...
Meandering, when not dallying to maunder,
Between many differing contours
And unruly contorts;
Where a privileged youth once
Happily...
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Categories:
ratchet, growing up,
Monstrous Violations of Reality
by Walter Alter
hi I'm Baxter Belknap Mandible IV
the Ninth Earl of Burneydick
I'll be heading your inner assault team
would you like the wine list
we have a nice Retaliation...
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Categories:
ratchet, crazy, how i feel,
Loud grunting
by Poet Destroyer A
(Innuendo -- Pigs)
All around are sticks and stone
Feel God's loving arms around you
-----At last, I am redeemed-----
A feast of my soul, you shall receive
A cake...
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Categories:
ratchet, anger, animal, evil, slam,
A SALES PITCH
by Darryl Ashton
A SALES PITCH.
I'm very well, thanks for
asking,
And how are you today?
You're 'good' are you?
Well, I'm not sure
If that's for you to say.
And before we...
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Categories:
ratchet, humorous,
Shawty Got Swag
by Pandita Sanchez
$hawty Got $wag
Shawty got swag,
Shawty mad dope.
Face all cheesin’,
She real turned up.
Goin’ to da club,
She steppin' wit her peeps,
Lookin’ so ratchet,
She’s straight up hoochie.
No racks...
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ratchet, character, fun, girl, hip
lol submitted this for my writer's craft class
by katie mckenna
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou can buy drinks at McD’s for a buck,
Wait, that means thou never want to pay,
Thou went to...
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Categories:
ratchet, arabic, bridal shower, earth
I cry stalactites Dark and twisted
by Tony Kirk
I'm turning into rock
I cry stalactites which form stalagmites whilst I’m alive.
Mine eyes are like shattered shards of broken lenses.
My brain sees the world as...
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ratchet, horror,
While Caesar watches for Brutus Part two
by Fritz Purdum
(continued from While Caesar watches for Brutus Part One)
Then you think of a face you love, those...
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ratchet, fun, humorous, life, satire,
IF GIVEN THE CHANCE
by Robert Walker
Ask yourself this question, then ask yourself again
If JESUS came down and walked among men
Would you except him as a friend
Would you really, ...
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ratchet, psychological,
Pre-divorce Lesson Number 3,697
by Elysabeth Faslund
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Being kept penniless was way too much!
Gonna fix my ex's car...
hell, he couldn't do it!
Couldn't find rusted parts...
needle-nose pliers, Phillips,
ratchet, spit, gum...jack.
Hmmmm...reroute...
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Categories:
ratchet,
Rainbow
by Malcolm Varner
After the storm has passed,
Pelting rain has ceased, and
Ratchet winds have shifted into
Tolerable and non-threatening breezes,
Life resumes in an ordinary sense.
As grey clouds move...
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Categories:
ratchet, change, life, nature, rainbow,
writers block
by DON JOHNSON
Destroyer ~ Poet
Contest Name BLOCK~ BLOCK~ BLOCK
tongue tied was all the go,
when i was young n simple so,
ratchet jaw is now i be,
tongue trips me...
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Categories:
ratchet, adventure, me,
Get Well Soon
by Barbara Gorelick
I had a Head Nurse that was just born mean
The ugliest woman I'd ever seen
A voice like sharp ice
Never could be nice
She made old...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
ratchet, funny,
THE NET OF TIME
by Sidney Beck
THE NET OF TIME
Time allows no second starts
No dress...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
ratchet, philosophy
Simple Toys?..Not Anymore
by Paula Swanson
Just as a boy grows into teenager
he is bound to one day grow into man
I think it's when he is just five years...
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Categories:
ratchet, family, funny, sonold, day,
A Little Bit Of Larry
by Lori Phipps
All who knew him, knew him well
With strangers he got along
Neighbors and anyone who rang the bell
No matter your views right or wrong
Asking, ‘How do...
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Categories:
ratchet, death
Jack
by ron derby
As the grinning Randal Patrick McMurphy
he was at his best
with an unconquerable spirit
flying over the cuckoo's nest
smiling down the halls of insanity
spreading hope and desire
stirring...
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Categories:
ratchet, dedication