Barkers Poems - Poems about Barkers

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...I Watched While the World Slept The simple minds are sleeping On the threshold of the moon While the nocturnal wolves are weeping None hear the barkers swoon Darkness is uncertain We do not w......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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. ......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...jalapeno peppers parading their truth proudly making the fried tortilla laugh oranges and the brightest azure blues the sizzle of a skillet my mouth salivates strumming of a banjo bluegras......Read the rest...

...The flags are waving brightly, hypnotizing the naive, they shimmer like carnival balloons. There are merry andrews waltzing, to the themes of marching bands, they’re camouflaged to blend ......Read the rest...

...We celebrate by slipping color into every glimpse and cranny Our town square is ready for celebration, transformed into magic-ville Excitement prances out of stranger’s smiles, joy leaps over herse......Read the rest...