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
The RideThe 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
This NightI’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
The Awakening - POTDPOTD 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
Death of PoetryI 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
Under the Boardwalk - a Sensual Love StorySheer 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 AutumnO 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
Rice FieldRice 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
Categories:
carousel, romantic, kiss,
Form:
Verse
The Private Lives of Those I'Ve LovedThe 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 HeadI 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 MindI’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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Categories:
carousel, desire, dream, fantasy, future,
Form:
Lyric
RememberRemember 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
Sticky MusicDriving 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
Categories:
carousel, childhood, fantasy
Form:
Free verse
A Sunshine RevolutionI 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