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Black Rat

A black rat arrived at London Docks
Scurried ashore with its companion
Met with a grey rat and had a fight
Died on the quayside, but the companion
Left the black rat for the grey
And entered unseen the great city
But by the end of the week
A lot of people regretted his coming
The plague of the Black Death had arrived

poem by Marilyn Shepperson
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Cat Dog

I am a cat, she is a dog..
There is also a rat...
And a frog...
If she is a dog, and I am a cat...
How will it work...
You know, for the frog and the rat...
Though it sounds pretty...
I mean, the frog and the rat...
But it sounds pitty...
With the dog, and the cat...
We will never work...
Barks and meows...
But ribbits and nibbles...
Sounds exact...

poem by Onyx Blake
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Aryaman's Band

Da cat, da rat, da bat
Rolling on a mat
Holding their paws together
Formed a quartet band
By appointing Aryaman, the Bard of Bombay
As their song writer
To sing praises
At all times
By writing poems on
Da cat, da rat, and da bat.

The band rocked and rolled
To the tune of Aryaman’s songs
Da cat singing in baritone
Da rat strumming strings
And da bat playing drums.

What they created
Was it music or a ruckus?
Or you might call it

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poem by Aryaman Naik
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Haec Fabula Docet

A rat who'd gorged a box of bane
And suffered an internal pain,
Came from his hole to die (the label
Required it if the rat were able)
And found outside his habitat
A limpid stream. Of bane and rat
'T was all unconscious; in the sun
It ran and prattled just for fun.
Keen to allay his inward throes,
The beast immersed his filthy nose
And drank-then, bloated by the stream,
And filled with superheated steam,
Exploded with a rascal smell,
Remarking, as his fragments fell
Astonished in the brook: 'I'm thinking
This water's damned unwholesome drinking!'

poem by Ambrose Bierce
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Aliens and Predators

Toxoplasma parasite has seized control of rat,
redirecting rodent's brain,
‘Take me to a cat'.
Rat has infiltrated ship, the galley cat's domain.
Post a chat and playful pat,
rat's politely slain.

Foreign port with fishy smells entices cat to shore.
Greedy feline eyes espy,
rainbow hued macaw.
Sidetracked to the jungle fringe where bearings fall awry,
hesitantly lifts a paw,
evening blacks the sky.

Moonless, clouded, thickly foliaged jungle presses tight.
Crawling floor's a restless bed,
wide-eyed cat's contrite.
Coiled above, a viper's membraned pits sense infrared.
Scans the cat's warm inner light,
slips by overhead.

poem by Diane Hine
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Cat And Rat

There was a cat
            who cried and sad
                     cause the only cheese he had
                               had been seized by a big big rat
 
 
There was a cat
            who died inside
                      cause the only cot he had
                               had been robbed by a big big rat
 
 
There was a cat
             who wailed to dead
                      cause the only wife he had
                                had been raped by a big damned rat! ! !

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poem by Fera Nugroho
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Sugarland

how situation changes
sometimes we do not notice

you look at the child's face
you think it is still the usual girl's face

the usual humiliation comes with a name
a old name

you fail to recognize that beyond
the girl's face is a strong woman

that you fail to recognize
you refuse to give way to the changes

look at you
miserable as a rat jumping from the boat

just to save yourself
and yet when you see the girl in that

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Run! Chase! Do

Run!
To get the doing of it done.
Chase!
To keep up with the pace,
Of a treacherous rat race.

With a doing of it,
As if something real is there to accomplish.
And this will come to satisfy,
A driven need to succeed!
But at what?
Addressing impressions pretentions make?

Run! Chase! Do...
On borders of disorder,
Run.
With time wasted making life shorter.

Run! Chase! do...
Find that perfect place,

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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A love Rat

I love the wildcats
I love their wild bedroom combats
The truth is I am a love rat
I like to talk the sweet love chat
Flattery and chitchat is my lyrical loving format

I love them slim, I love them fat
I love them round, I love them flat
The truth is I am a love rat
Even the hornies that don't take a bath
I will still bow down and take off my hat

I know by heart the path
To the many wishes of a ladies heart
But I crawl in and out of my holes
With a lusty wandering heartless soul
So allow me to fly you to the higest pole

I give tit for tat
I could reward you with a lovely pat

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poem by Sylvia Chidi
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After the Salvo

UP and down, up and down
They go, the gray rat, and the brown.
The telegraph lines are tangled hair,
Motionless on the sullen air
An engine has fallen on its back,
With crazy wheels, on a twisted track
All ground to dust is the little town.
Up and down, up and down
They go, the gray rat, and the brown
A skull, torn out of the graves near by,
Gapes in the grass. A butterfly,
In azure irridescence new,
Floats into the world, across the dew
Between the flow'rs. Have we lost our way,
Or are we toys of a god at play,
Who do these things on a young Spring day?

Where the salvo fell, on a splintered ledge
Of ruin, at the crater's edge,
A poppy lives: and young, and fair,

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poem by Herbert Asquith
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