Best Barker Poems

a disproportionate amount of night is lost
        as we close doors and shut curtains
take my arm, walk with...

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(A Carnival Barker)
There’s no shame in my game,
I write to entertain
This is from my upcoming book 
that has no name.
Poetry that entertains.
 
I am the...

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God's Return Ticket

Did you ever wonder about the Almighty’s criteria or selection process for reincarnation of souls back on Earth? Just think some famous politician,...

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Piddle Eee Dee

Dribble, Dribble, breakage, and Piddle
                  ...

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Viola
if you could ,
would you come home with me?
Far far far away from your three ring circus dream.
Far far far away from your masters steel...

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Over the years there have been many game shows and some are standouts.
With sport things like baseball, football, basketball, golf, it a good combination.
The game...

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Vembadi, my Alma Mater


On day one, I stepped into school tearfully,
In school uniform, clutching my bag nervously.
Miss Barker appeared! I gazed  at her fearfully,
Her...

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Baker Bob brought breakfast biscuits
To big, bad Bennie Barker's bed.
Bob believes, sadly, that Ben behaves badly  
Because Barbara Barker rarely bakes bread....

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Grammar Series
PRONOUN HOEDOWN

Grab your partner he or she
I'll choose you and you choose me

We'll go left if you go right
They'll keep going all through the...

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I have to admit
The school where I work
Needs everyone to be
Able to speak Spanish.
Because the parents do.
We are an 82 percent
Spanish-speaking community.
I’ve taken Spanish 4...

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To manipulate laws to disqualify voters,
Vote multiple times, or give dead living voice,
These are acts of a traitor! Man’s born with a choice.
Should political virtue...

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Now, ol’ Twister Tom he was quite a cowboy find—
A real rock hard cowpoke, though the question begged—
Some say that he was a legend in...

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It’s a hot commodity,
seems as if everybody gotta have it
Possessing something
that gives such elevated status
	is a coveted thing
Desired for the inordinate attention it bring
Ownership of...

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Excitement explodes with anticipation today,
Colorful flyers say the circus is coming to town
With animal acts, clowns, and music so gay.

Soon the big top will be...

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Clink-clink
Black panther eyes peering 
thru the concrete canopy
What do they see in the blood-smoke midnight air ... 
safari sound waves shocking,
moving the ghetto leaves
What do...

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