From Rat----> Art Form

The above is some superb rat art poetry by an old college friend
--ShrapnelCatcher (2009----original)

I was not going to post again today, but several interesting submissions have rolled in that have gotten me to think. Need this blog be about poetry in it's "purest form?" After these 2 beautiful submissions, I think not! Art poetry and soliloquies are perfectly lovely tributes to the rodent as well. Keep thinking outside of the box, my dear rat poet friends.

"Ratlet Soliloquy"

"To Be, or not to be rat?" is the question,

Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the

teeth and clawing of outrageous feline

Or to bite arms of felines raised against him

And by opposing, bite them. To die: to squeak

No more: with no more squeak to say "some cheese" to end

The heartache and the thousand pangs of hunger

That rats are heirs to, for consumption is

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

To sleep; perchance to dream

--Nicodemus (with a nod to William Shakespeare)