A Rat Poem by Prabir Gayen

A Rat

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A rat with restless legs and
Nimble-eyed search,
doth protest against life.
He fought against odds and struggled
That poison besmirched.
The lungs that played wanton rife,
Crippled into his slow beating heart's knife.
A drop of water that musthave saved his life,
The water he lived with, from his childhood
Prime,
Blenched to quench his thirst utmost to beat
Poison's fatal paradigm.
He died and his death mocked our sense
Of humanness.

A Rat
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: life and death
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Life
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
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Biswajit Roy 04 June 2020

Blenched to quench his thirst utmost to beat Poison's fatal paradigm. He died and his death mocked our sense Of humanness.

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Biswajit Roy 04 June 2020

The lungs that played wanton rife, Crippled into his slow beating heart's knife. A drop of water that must have saved his life, The water he lived with, from his childhood Prime,

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Biswajit Roy 04 June 2020

He fought against odds and struggled That poison besmirched.

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Biswajit Roy 04 June 2020

A rat with restless legs and Nimble-eyed search, doth protest against life.

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Michael Walker 08 August 2019

Another appealing photo, a true sense of family here. I wonder if you are using the rat as a metaphor for an unfortunate person, or literally. First-class either way.

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