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Ratcheting Poems - Poems about Ratcheting

Before Easter

...A late March thundershower floats toward me
Like a plucked flower
Handed over on a walk to a lover
With a smile

Down this afternoon path
That breezes past
Spring-born ponds
Erupting
Of Peep...
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Categories: ratcheting, beauty, earth, easter, faith,
Form: Free verse

Doing absolute zero endeavors

...Doing absolute zero endeavors

Earlier today March 28th, 2025
(thee hour now fifteen minutes
after eight o'clock at night, cuz
yours truly & wife paced back
and forth from one room to the
othe...
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Categories: ratcheting, absence, adventure, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse



January 13th 2024 Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris

...January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris

date of conception:?  ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, emi...
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Categories: ratcheting, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Highlights From Highland Manor

...Highlights from Highland Manor

Courtesy Goofus and Gallant 
who began their broadly-drawn 
moral plays in the 1950s, 
initially depicted as identical twins,
but later on, editors for Highlight...
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Categories: ratcheting, adventure, age, animal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSlow Boat To China

...I was born in a landlocked getaway town
Where all the colors were black, gray, or brown.
Jobs at the steel mill were ratcheting down.
It was not in my future to stay.

So, I took a long walk off...
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Categories: ratcheting, adventure, allegory,
Form: Rhyme



I Still Feel Under the Weather Today April 2nd, 2023

...I still feel under the weather today April 2nd, 2023

Unseen enemy invades my body 
with platoon of green berets air
rating, and enfilading immune system viz 
Hib bully knock and sock kin me 
c...
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Categories: ratcheting, adventure, anger, anxiety, april,
Form: Rhyme

A Field Day Shoe Fit For Mother Goose

...A field day shoe fit for Mother Goose
  
Fruitless effort squeezing figurative juice
Pandora called triggering 
helter skelter to get loose
necessitating Bullwinkle J. Moose
to usher at yours t...
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Categories: ratcheting, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme

Happy Lxiv Birthday Matthew Scott Harris

...Happy Lxiv birthday Matthew Scott Harris

date of conception:?  ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, eminem.

A gangly, meas...
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Categories: ratcheting, appreciation, birthday, boy, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme

Mother Goose Would Find Her Tail Feathers Ruffled

...Mother Goose would find her tail feathers ruffled 

Hey diddle diddle 
the cat and the fiddle
when off to see 
a crooked man and woman,
whilst cowards jumped 
over moo ving little
pair of mis...
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Categories: ratcheting, abuse, allusion, anger, animal,
Form: Rhyme

I Loathe Feeling Under the Weather

...I loathe feeling under the weather...,

especially when nasty elephant 
(named Thomas the pachyderm)
stomping to break loose courtesy tether,
where antibodies of mine 
struggle to band together...
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Categories: ratcheting, 12th grade, adventure, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Awaiting Rescue By Good Ole Extraterrestrial Homeboys

...Cuz existence among *****sapiens 
extremely intolerable prospect
particularly sharing planet 
with most violent species
courtesy hoodlums wielding
deadly firearms methodically gun down
men, wom...
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Categories: ratcheting, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

August Ending

...The breeze cool and refreshing
 colors paled pastel exhibitors
 lipstick pinks, buttered yellows, creamy peach,
 alabaster whites, orange tangerine, wintery blues;
August cools ratcheting down 
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Categories: ratcheting, allusion, seasons,
Form: Epitaph

Feliz Cumpleanos La Senora Dunning

...Feliz cumpleaños la señora Dunning

Fifty seven orbitz didst elapse
circling with thee around the sun
and nary sign ye will collapse
anytime soon, I hoop fully reckon
untold massages nervously
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Categories: ratcheting, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Only Past and Future Moments Exist

...Impossible mission to pinpoint present
such fleeting moment instantaneously spent
according to yours truly i.e. this gent
mind boggled, intrigued, stymied...
courtesy unseen minute
(mine hoot, m...
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Categories: ratcheting, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Premium MemberA Propitiation of Blue Tears

...A Propitiation of Blue Tears

On this highway to where the skies bleed blue tears into vases; 
on ornate buttresses they sit and saturate us, 
they cry and douse us,
they contract, expand, relea...
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Categories: ratcheting, freedom,
Form: Free verse

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