Best Parade Poems

Fantasy 2-22-24  
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Parade

At midnight dawn my mind escapes parting the stars
Making my way to a summerland torchlight parade
Where grand marshals of zebra fish 
Lead the festival from fiery snow drifts of spun clouds
Making way for tunes and flourishes of the flugel zoots
Dressed in braided...

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I live amazed in an amphitheatre, 
A huge red and white domed tent.
Working with actors and jesters, 
Enduring a perpetual torment.

The crazies I know are the clowns,
Red nose and a big head of hair.
And the gym junkies, they’re the strongmen, 
Wrestling each day with a...

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Shrub leaves lie curled in the dormant yard;
Trees shiver in their nakedness
As a crisp autumn wind exhales
Into the barren night sky.

On the corner of Walnut and Maple,
The Old Crowder House fights for breath--
Creaking and moaning with age and neglect;
Too decrepit to shelter life beyond a...

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Off, Seamus marched with a swagger,
Yet, soon, he slowed, that sly lagger.
Then, not very far,
He snuck to a bar:
By noon, his march was a stagger.



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Dawn And The Heart's Parade

Sun rose and dawn faded so far away,
My darling lay asleep by my side
From my window saw a speckled fawn
Such beauty can never ever be denied.

I saw green grass welcome her bite,
And new morn embrace her soft stride
There lay my lady...

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My mossy ferns awakened, anticipating something wonderful and new.
They are coming, the violets whispered. Their tiny voices flowing through.

Faerie parades whimsically teaching my woodland creatures 
to treat each other kindly,
Sparkly, winged beauties, began prancing across my land bridge,
“animals, keep behind thee’.

Faerie whisper reverent, a tribute...

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You breaketh my soul 
where am I to find it now that you've taken control
neglecting the tide 
my fountain of youth placed there by your side

Never shun the forgotten sinner that by shame ever to stay in remembrance
strained to be as Temperance
flawless by standards of...

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It's a burst of spring
the Easter Parade of hues!
Lilies dance on streets
in creams and reds, deep green phase
dazed orange yellow bliss maze.

Heartbeat of rebirth
while the flaming redbird sings
amidst subtle scents.
Colorful celebration
Garden party location.

...

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Strands of ribbons ride the sky with suns arrival
Children watch for birds and listen for the bands
To their delight music raises up horizons on the curve
Lifted like a curtain at the circus 
Curved at the ends where land meets sky

Higher than high the kaleidoscopic eye...

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never were afraid
we live the movie "Mermaid"
comes with a parade

was not offending 
movie had a great ending
to you poem sending

about will worry
away we all did scurry
in a big hurry

 God gave His consent
are things that He may have meant
should always repent

although lenient
what always is convenient
when...

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The classes came out, grade by grade,
In costumes for the grand parade,
A hand-held sign announcing each,
In lock-step with the ones who teach.

A motor-scootered cop came first
To make sure traffic had dispersed,
While friends and families lined the streets
To photograph or send out Tweets.

We saw the first...

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all were seen
seen walking
down in slow
shuffles of
feeling down

down the street
music played
with a somber
melody as if
trumpets were

crying and the
trombone moaning
but at the place the
resting place where
lowered down the music

turned up
beat and
everyone
clapped
and sang

shake 
that thang 
in a jazz 
funeral in
Pennsylvania...

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It All Started With A Parade

All walks of people crowding the streets 
Like moving vessels of a mighty fleet. 
Jolly Diana, a wake-up call at dawn; 
A throng is gathered down the town. 

Cadets go marching, called the corps; 
Gutsy kids are watching from above...

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    "Pets on Parade"



on Christmas Eve two kitty cats were sleeping
as Santa Claus climbed down the chimney creeping
Excalibur started to purr
Gabriel raised his black fur
poor Santa was startled and began weeping.

while Santa was chased by playful felines
trotting toward them a band of...

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In endless quest we sought seclusions peace                          	
hiding in the mystery of a strength always thought weak		
and so denied the...

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