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Rattletrap Poems

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...Rickety rackety rattletrap Ralph
Swiftly splattered and splashed his way south
Tattering and transferring two trucks in a tunnel
Undermining Uncle Uric’s ferocious fire funnel
Slickly sideswiping...

Categories: rattletrap, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold

...Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold

alternately titled: incorrigible lottery dreamer
big plans to relocate self and spouse
to some tropical island paradise
by the ...

Categories: rattletrap, adventure, angel, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

June 12th 2017 Transition Revisited and Revised Today 4 2 2021

...June 12th 2017 TRANSITION revisited and revised today 4/2/2021

While scrolling over outdated docs
(i.e. namely OpenOffice documents)
derrière seated upon hard backed chair,
yours truly came upo...

Categories: rattletrap, adventure, angel, anxiety, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

2009 Hyundai Sonata An Infuriating Rattletrap

...Time and again finances stretched
to breaking point
crackle, pop, and snap
'curse Alfred E. Neuman
smiles at yours truly
(this luckless papa)

with with his toothy gap
haint even Abel nor Cai...

Categories: rattletrap, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Doctors Particularly Biomedical Engineers

...Doctors (particularly biomedical engineers)...
really trolley train hard to keep track of patients

Eye tell ya we (spuds)
pulled up stakes after four yar
and zero scores ago living in Bryn Mawr...

Categories: rattletrap, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Awakening From Pleasant Dreams

...Awakening From Pleasant Dreams...

No matter scant details recalled upon 
arising from slumber, this even though 
submerged into deep unconscious - (as 
ifmine being plunged bajillion miles 
su...

Categories: rattletrap, 12th grade, angel, blessing,
Form: Free verse

This Poor Manz Pipe Dream

...This Poor Man's Pipe Dream

no..no...no...DONT GET CLOSE
cuz, yea...yea...
     yea...I suppose
emailing would be
     the safest lagniappe bet,
     where nill expose
sure would moost
     ...

Categories: rattletrap, adventure, dream, fate, happiness,
Form: Imagism

Bedeviled By Fatigue

...Assumption begot,
     that cumulative generations
     bred tiredness weariness zap
ping ability to remain awake,

     nope even enough energy
     to feign opening maw mouth
     evincing a...

Categories: rattletrap, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Imagism

Possum Branch Road

...Cedars whisker the ditch along Possum Branch Road.  Such small little fellers, hardly worth calling a tree.  Some say haints put a spell on the whole two thousand arcres.  Maybe so, maybe not, but le...

Categories: rattletrap, humorous,
Form: Narrative