Barkers Poems - Poems about Barkers

...Guard dogs try to sleep in a deaf corner. Smaller barkers do what they do best from under bed or table. Large bugs in the sky keep blinking and teasing. They jig and jag and only the dogs an......

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...POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS Fair Game by Michael R. Burch At the Tennessee State Fair, the largest stuffed animals hang tilt-a-whirl over the pool tables with mocking button eyes, knowing the p......

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...Town Full Of Sound I use to live in A town full of sound With Roller Coasters And Merry Go Round Horns would blast To sound an alarm I use to live in A town full of sound I use to li......

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...Late 1940s England the square was packed & the high street full meat&veg seemed plentiful market barkers drew the queues with jokes impromptu shoppers filed neat& f......

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...I watch carnival of carnivals quickly unfold intense barkers are yelling as if their large bears are gold seeing ultimate thin man and fat lady never gets old fortune tellers are so unique, they’v......

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...I Watched While the World Slept The simple minds are sleeping On the threshold of the moon While nocturnal wolves are weeping None hear the barkers swoon Darkness is uncertain Most will never......

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...who is winning? me? my bike? the ferris wheel? the loud carnival barkers? or the boats? the boy turned to see amazed it was him It might have been his first win......

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...I SIT IN FRONT OF THE TV SCREEN WATCHING NOTHINGNESS THAT APPEARS TO BE REAL TO APPEAL TO THE VIEWER’S VISCERAL FEEL BUT IN REALITY NO MORE REAL THAN THE BARKERS SPIEL OR THE SA......

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...POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS Shark by Michael R. Burch They are all unknowable, these rough pale men— haunting dim pool rooms like shadows, propped up on bar stools like scarecrows, nodding and......

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...Clamor of the midway delights our ears Calliopes from the old merry-go-round, Shouts of the barkers, games one hears Clamor of the midway delights our ears, Squeals of children, rolle......

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...With apologies to Albert Camus I once was a circus strongman, Sovereign of midway spectacles. I wore a leopard-skin loincloth And a lion-claw necklace. My club was seasoned hardwood. I proudl......

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...The spring carnival will soon be arriving With exciting rides and strange exotic shows, Loudspeakers will blare with old disco jiving Flickering neon lights causing nocturnal glows. ......

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...I can hear the screams of happy children a block away from the square It is the fourth of July, the only day we have a carnival in our town The tilt-a-whirl and the Ferris wheel are in their usual ......

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...Flawed Masquerade Carnival Upon the midway of imperfection, The traveling human circus, “illusion” of perfection, A masquerading “mask,” in carnival unmasked, Lies “cracked” in equinox Like “t......

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...the square was packed & the high street full meat&veg seemed plentiful market barkers drew the queues with jokes impromptu shoppers filed neat& formal in sainsburys g......

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