Short Ratty Poems

Lady in the Shoe

That fornicating old lady 
Still living in that ratty shoe
The citys' gonna move it out 
I wonder what she’s gonna do...

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Deep down in the Wild Wood
An empyty mansion stood-
Stoats & weasels squatted there for nowt,
Ratty,Mole & Badger with a loud shout
Helped careless Toad to kick them out....

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chatty
happy
ratty
batty
IT, if chatty, happy, my life friend.
IT, ratty, batty, it's friendships end!

8th December 2017
IT - Poetry Contest Sponsored by John lawless...

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I lie bedraggled, disheveled,
scrunched up and crinkled,
in a pile,
like ratty raggedy 
rag doll,
besmirched, 
defiled and exiled,
for being a
spineless, 
limp 
wimp....

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I is a bat
deep in night sky

deep
blue

in which i like to fly

i hang in the sky

the world passes bye

and when i sleep

i wake

in the morning

somtimes a little ratty

and often a little batty...

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Contrary to what I've been recently spouting
You can sometimes actually see this guy frowning
No one's always happy
Sometimes I can be ratty
Keep the baddies at bay by constantly clowning


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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who is this woman who stands to claim you
twisted face and ratty hair
eyes glinting with greed
hand in your pocket
deceit in her words
I will smite her
like the bible
I'm sure God will lend me a lightning bolt
to put and end to this
misery...

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I hate that bloody clock!
Disturbing my equilibrium
Persistently whispering
Gorgeous sleep lost

Sometimes it's infernal tick
Is a sweet melody
But not right now
It's more than bothering me

I just want to sleep
Ratty as Hell
I know it's not likely
Sighs 'oh well!'...

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when an ambitious hand 
and a rushing mouth 
cast a canopy of ramblings 
or utter distress 
and anxiety spoills the ground,
the state of silence
 from she we think is a fool
 is an answer to wisdom 
and a conquerer of might
for where does the slow movement of a cat leads the ratty rat?...

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Ratty old shoe
Comfy and dirty
Molded to you foot
Laces are fraying
What was once white is brown
A little smelly
Been through a lot
Gum stuck on the bottom
But in the end
You life still has it's sole
And what ever's left of the laces
Just barely holding it together
Luckily for you it just seems to fit...

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What is it to me if
The teenage girl next door
Leaves on a date dressed up
Like a downtown whore?
If her brother wears his cap
With the bill in the back
And their father drives up
In a ratty old hearse Cadillac?
Why do I let the smallest
Things annoy me so?
I think I would move away
If I had some place to go.

written July 27, 2021...

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Durex was popular in  a NY condo
                               His wife was Kimono Toyota Hondo
                                       They went to Okamoto
                                    Passed the night in a grotto
                             Left ratty rubbers in the bag of Londo












            durex/Limerick Copyright (c) rajat kanti chakrabarty 25 11 2014...

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go to the corner  
a cascade

sitting in a ratty chair
tattered, torn, very forlorn
perfectly reflects, her child-like 
despair; there is no magic to repair
her ‘sorrowful me’ rigid air while
sitting in a ratty chair
thoughts and wishes squished inside
day dreams simply refuse to fly all 
tattered, torn, and very forlorn
a sniffle, begins to grow and bloom
inside her curly little dome, it
perfectly reflects, her child-like despair....

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Duck has been around eight years.
We call her “Baby” though.
A stuffed duck with a broken neck.
No longer squeaks. Ratty fake fur.
One eye.
We figured out seven years ago 
It would be wise to purchase a spare duck.
We purchased two of them. Exact replicas.
The dog will have nothing to do with either.
When she loses Duck for weeks, we try, to no avail.
Duck is her baby. 
When we say “where is your baby?” she brings Duck.
Like a toddler, this dog....

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