Whispers of Thrills
The rusted Ferris wheel, a skeletal hand,
Points to a sky it can no longer command.
Once, laughter echoed, joy on the breeze,
Now silence reigns, whispered by the trees.
The carousel horses, their paint chipped and worn,
Dream of merry-go-rounds, of days yet unborn.
Once, children squealed, clinging to their steeds,
Now shadows dance, where happy laughter bleeds.
The cotton candy stand,
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Categories:
amusement park, fun, memory, sad,
Form: Rhyme
I remember
I Remember
I remember a time
When all was so bright
With bustling crowds
And neon lit nights
Covered wagon caterpillars
And bunnies of blue
Teacups that spun
You sat in them too
I remember the days
When scooters could fly
Pinball was king
And everything thrived
I remember the smells
Of hot dogs & beer
I remember it all
And wish it still there
Bill MacEachern
05/02/2022
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Categories:
amusement park, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Zippily
Zippily, zippity, I slip down
the slippery dip slide.
Zippity-doo-dah, slippily-dippity-do!
Suddenly and nippily, tipping
backwards to quicken the pace.
Snappily, I whippingly
swish right off the end of the slide.
I launch into space,
Fly high in the air, arms wildly flaying
like a rocket man on steroids, screaming.
I land with an awfully
painful jolt, snap and thump.
Woefully my aplomb
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Categories:
amusement park, flying, games,
Form: Free verse
Amusement Park
Where one goes to change one’s dull face,
Catching up try in the fun’s race:
Of sad worries leave no big trace;
See how he might quicken heart’s pace…
High Blood Pressure some kind of shark -
We all need an Amusement Park:
The best: a non-stop until dark
When ears start to pick a dog’s bark.
Musician for you with soft voice
But
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Categories:
amusement park, celebration, food, fun, people,
Form: Rhyme
Amusement Park
Time spent wonderment
Ferociously amusing
Absorbed all day into surroundings
Screaming gayly
Roller coaster up and down
Up and down
Spider ride round and round
Round and round
COTTON CANDY HEART ATTACKS
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Categories:
amusement park, fun, happy, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Welcome To Leisure Land
A forsaken theme park, once a magic place
It’s hay day in the sixties, quaint and pretty
To go there now you won’t find a friendly face
Strange outcasts on the outskirts of the city
Rumor's fly with grave warnings of fallen grace
Chase you with a smile, sinister and gritty
Guarded with a shotgun, and it’s oh so grand
Doors
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Categories:
amusement park, scary,
Form: Ottava rima
Amusement Park Caper
Urchin on a cedar swing,
summer mist inhaler,
noonday shriek and frolic,
mother blowing fragrant blossoms
at her golden offspring.
Lavenders amid the shrouded reverie
pave a mystic wonderland aglow
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Categories:
amusement park, appreciation, art, beautiful, care,
Form: Prose Poetry
Actors and Actresses
All actors trailed by actresses
Know the best way to the tunnels
Is to already be within the
Big Ring that secures this
Magic KINGDOMCUM.
It's not about looking
Through the window and
Getting past the DACS,
Or going back to where
I want to end up.
On the grand tour
I could get lost
When lovers i love
Have no thought of my style.
Go
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Categories:
amusement park, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Amusement Park For World Diplomacy
Suffering of Yemen children
Raping pleasures in the Congo
Syrian war of super powers games
Iranian games with nukes
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Categories:
amusement park, death, discrimination, irony, metaphor,
Form: Elegy
At the Amusement Park
I’m wondering - how much is enough?
given fact: this line is but a throng.
One who does not shield his hacking cough
is brushing up against my sarong.
I’m wondering - how much is enough?
One who's followed at my heels so strong
ignoring what really ticks me off.
He's almost shoving - it's downright wrong.
I’m wondering - how
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Categories:
amusement park, fun, kid, solitude,
Form: Sonnet
Amusement Park
eyes stare in wonder
enchanted kingdom beckons
to her inner child
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Dedicated to Olive_eloi on her
recent visit to a fun park.
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Categories:
amusement park, fun,
Form: Senryu
Amusement Park
Amusement Park
It's a merry-go-round world
with it's big brass rings
She's a roller coaster romance
as she dips so she sings.
It's the haunted house
and the tunnel of love
the depths of the valley's
and the Heavens above
It's three for a nickel
five for a dime
it's a game of illusion
forget those concepts of time.
C'mon brother
win your little lady a prize
bloated head
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Categories:
amusement park, dark, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
God's Amusement Park
Timeless, at once, a memory of long ago
Born from Heaven, to Earth, a new life to grow
First from clay, then ocean spray
And wrapped in God’s own DNA
Miracle of life, perfect pure so innocent and new
Divine dominion, planet Earth, in shades of
Reds, greens but mostly sky blue
Yet far beyond colors and shades in
God’s Amusement Park
Lies
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Categories:
amusement park, bible, christian, creation, god,
Form: Rhyme
Oaks Amusement Park
incomplete dystopia
memories scattered around mixed in with the large oak leaves.
the trees gnarled and twisted having looked after themselves for years.
the park itself is similar with lots of ecclectic oddities scattered around.
large yellow sign post standing in an inorganic chernobyle faith.
waiting for rust or for the bumper cars to begin to light
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Categories:
amusement park, absence,
Form: Blank verse
Amusement Park
I paid a million dollars for entrance into this amusement park and I thought “hey
this better be worth it”.
A million kisses
A million hugs
A million intense conversations about life and love
The first rides were amazing…I had gotten my money’s worth.
I never wanted to leave
I was trapped and it felt good
Happy
Thrilled
Just like I thought I
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Categories:
amusement park, loss, me, me,
Form: Alliteration
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