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Best Carlton Poems

Below are the all-time best Carlton poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of carlton poems written by PoetrySoup members


Carlton
There was once a man named Carlton 
From the city of Walton.
He was big and bulk,
His Hair colored like a skunk. 
There was a lady...

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Categories: carlton, confusion, funny love, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Reveren' Carlton Whitney - Both Audio and Text
Reveren’ Carlton Whitney was the pastor of our church, and someone I looked up to as a child. 
Six foot six, with piercing eyes, a...

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Categories: carlton, character, uplifting,
Form: Narrative
A Strong Woman
A strong woman doesn’t have to have the body that only society wants.
A strong woman doesn’t have to run a marathon.
A strong woman doesn’t have...

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Categories: carlton, daughter, dedication, family, growing
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Swagger
The man is from Bronx, but plays in Manhattan
Owns an old Chevy, but he drives like a Mercedes
Sleeps in Quality Inn, but dreams in Ritz-Carlton

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Categories: carlton, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member On Driving Drunk
another 1970s piece --


An old, inebriated man came stumbling from the bar.
I watched as he collapsed beside the front door of his car.

He used the...

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Categories: carlton, death,
Form: Narrative



Puttin On the Ritz
Had an invite to a ball in Lake Tahoe
at the Ritz Carlton what a surprise.
To celebrate in true old fashioned style
opened a door couldn’t believe...

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Categories: carlton, dance, old, time,
Form: Verse
Whence Spring's Beauty
It’s October, we find time to go by the spring-house to get the tulips. It is time to prepare for winter and the inevitable coming...

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Categories: carlton, autumn, beauty, spring, summer,
Form: Narrative
Better Yet
My heart was pounding, my soul adrift, like a large rock rolling towards a cliff. Like a tumbling wall my body shook, crumbling from the...

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Categories: carlton, cheer up, hope, song,
Form: Lyric
The Aussie Product Scene
We Aussie like to have a bite
Of bread and butter and vegemite
We’ll save a Crumble bar for you
Cherry Ripe and Lamingtons too
With snags and meat...

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Categories: carlton, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Invisible
I am the one the word has forgotten. I am the one that walks around and never seen. I am the breeze behind you. I...

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Categories: carlton, depression, sad, war, me,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Spring Garden
SPRING GARDEN

wildflower blossoms
a coiffured carpet of moss
curlicues of vines

calligraphic bold sonnet
intoxicating fragrance

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budding green love taps
from a small child’s fingertips
on each oaken branch

lucid tickle of sunlight
robin...

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Categories: carlton, beauty, nature, spring,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Dance
DANCE

Dressed up or dressed down
Any dance floor to get down
Nifty, nimble moves
Carlton would bring the floor down
Enticing others to groove.



Carlton is a dance move...



8/11/21 ...

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Categories: carlton, dance,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Moon Offering
I showed up to church in the buff
hands over my ZONE to hide my stuff
    offering plate came around
   ...

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Categories: carlton, funny, life
Form: Limerick
The Love of My Life
He is the love of my life and so much more, since that fateful day from whence we met I knew we were meant to...

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Categories: carlton, boyfriend, dedication, passion, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member On Noms-De-Plume
Justin Von Depathos strode across the ballroom floor 
To sit with Carlton Vishizwa and Charlotte Genivieve, 
While I watched, in silent fascination, from the door,
The...

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Categories: carlton, funny, humor, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse

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