Seijaku
...I swallowed the Little Book of Calm
to become a soothsayer,
a seeker, a crier, a prophet for peace and solemnity.
For only then could I calm and relieve my troubled black book soul
torn by regre...
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Categories:
ratter, boat, peace,
Form: Free verse
Working Dogs
...Had a big dog for to tend the sheep
Small dog for a ratter while we sleep
Old spot for all to pet
Growler for warn he let
All had a job and work for their keep...
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Categories:
ratter, animal, dog, jobs,
Form: Limerick
Jinglejangle
...tippy-toe tap tap
pitter-patter slosh
splish splosh, splash,
drip of tap
purr of cat
twits of bird chat
ratter tat, ratter tat
knocks on my door.
The unintended muse
was stifled
by the h...
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Categories:
ratter, silence, word play, words,
Form: Free verse
The Mirror
...Pitter, Patter, Ratter, Tat, Tatter, Rain falls softly on cracked window pains. The house darkness is solid, quiet as death, it covers all where it rests. BLACK! Among the silver silent willow trees....
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Categories:
ratter, age, art, cancer, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Freedoms Fiesta
...Bells from church to cathedral rang out the chorus of screams
in every street echoed the cheering death of millions
as confetti rainbows came falling ticker-tape parade
from a sky of joy ashed s...
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Categories:
ratter, celebration, war,
Form: Free verse
Ode To a Misguided Mouser
...There was a young feline named Jackson,
Who wanted a piece of the action.
While hunting for rats, Jack
Got into a spat, with a strange little
Creature known to us as a bat.
This then is the f...
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Categories:
ratter, animal, cat, humorous, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Rats Rats Ratter
...She screamed honey honey
Come see rats
He rushed for a slasher
ready to terminate descendants Muroidea
And sons of rodent
Where honey where
The the rat killer asked standing like superman
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Categories:
ratter, humor, humorous, romance, romantic,
Form: Blank verse
Sleep
...S ilence, means not a pee P
L ittle crickets sadly twing E
E nsorcelled children cring E
E nveloped in a fairy cau L
P ratter ends and silence fall S
* A word which can be read forward ...
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Categories:
ratter, sweet,
Form: Acrostic
A Place of Goodbyes
...A place of goodbyes is the earth
Each generation we let go
Heaven_ place of hellos and mirth
Whitey went_ will there be rebirth
Or with animals only end though
A place of goodbyes is the earth
Sadn...
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Categories:
ratter, death, pets, me,
Form: Villanelle