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Best Carousel Poems

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


Premium Member The Ride
The old man looked a little out of place
Astride his pony on the carousel
A smile from yesterday across his face
As if he were entranced in...

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Categories: carousel, imagination, memory, sad,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member This Night
I’m driftwood, and I’m floating out to sea
as sun descends upon my home - the grove
of trees whose fragrance still remains with me.
And likewise, heaven’s...

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Categories: carousel,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Awakening - POTD
POTD 5th Feb 18

Dedicated to Ken, a good friend of mine who had to give up a brilliant ballet, ballroom dancing and stage career when...

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Categories: carousel, dance, growth, journey, lost
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Death of Poetry
I gaze beyond 
the silver winged 
     heart of 
twinkling twilight,
lost within metaphors 
    in warm cashmere
 ...

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Categories: carousel, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Under the Boardwalk - a Sensual Love Story
Sheer poetry in motion with a picnic basket in hand 
Laughing brandishing a bottle as he lopes along the sand
His handsome features completely wreathed in...

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Categories: carousel, love, lust, romance, sensual,
Form: Verse



O Glorious Autumn
O glorious Autumn of melancholic 
Gold -
All abouts the brightly lit
Woodlands
Your wonderful artistry behold!
Tinted bronzes,
Darting between awkward firs
Of sobering Evergreen,
Loiter inside mauve havens
Splashed with palest...

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Categories: carousel, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rice Field
Rice fields look the same except
for this one; this one who knew me
before i was born… and lying on her
fertile belly, she tosses the mist
of...

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Categories: carousel, beautiful, places,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member - Just a Kiss -
A small miracle
                      ...

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Categories: carousel, romantic, kiss,
Form: Verse
The Private Lives of Those I'Ve Loved
The hutch 
like everything else in this house is
crooked.  A slanting hardwood floor 
and the burnished ends 
of an ancient table. 

An ever rounding...

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Categories: carousel, family, people, places, house,
Form: I do not know?
I Lay My Head
I lay my head  upon the softness of its mane
My white charger, no knight for a swain
as I am the gallant rider looking for love.
Riding...

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Categories: carousel, horse, love,
Form: Rondeau
Scribbles On My Mind
I’ve got scribbles on my mind
Thoughts trying hard to find
Random echos in the wind
Of more than poetic friends

What is it with you and blue
A penny...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: carousel, desire, dream, fantasy, future,
Form: Lyric
Remember
Remember that time
Oh that smile
that beautiful smile
that little playful smirk
tugging at my shirt
waiting for me to ask you to dance
That little blue skirt
Cashmere sweater
Your cheeks,...

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Categories: carousel, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sticky Music
Driving along, I’m hearing a song
as my radio I like to play.
I get to my job and hear all day long
that tune that just won’t...

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Categories: carousel, music, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Clouds
He lay outside    on the cellar door    one day
Lazy    gazing at the sky
A child  ...

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Categories: carousel, childhood, fantasy
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Sunshine Revolution
I was attending a birthday party, once when summer was young.
We played games on the back lawn, beneath the huge orange sun.

Colorful birds were tweeting,...

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Categories: carousel, birthday, change, fantasy, magic,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs