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Best Sideshow Poems

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


Sarah's Story - Mental Illness
Sarah’s Story - Mental Illness

Sarah, the “Crazy Lady,” was a familiar sight,
roaming the streets any time of day or night.
Her foul body odor announced her...

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Categories: sideshow, crazy, depression, hurt, mental
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member This Parade Called Life
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...

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Categories: sideshow, humorous, life,
Form: Rhyme
Where Do I Go From Here
Where do I go from here     The money`s gone     So`s the wife     Need...

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Categories: sideshow, home, day, me, night,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member And the Bs Goes On
The daily BS saga continues
        as censorship’s still on the go
      Poems culled,...

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Categories: sideshow, allusion, poems, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Created Me a Circus
Big top three-ring-circus ferris wheel and sideshow freaks
Ringmaster draws your attention to the center ring
Presenting the bareback rider with a graceful fling

Silly clowns riding tricycles
Fierce...

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Categories: sideshow, fun, games, life,
Form: Rhyme



Where Will the Circus Fall
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Where will the circus fall, 
leaving giraffes homeless,
as pitched tents get pitched
and sideshow freaks 
become the norm,
guessing someone’s weight
who doesn’t care

When the sun sets
tablecloth desires
on...

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Categories: sideshow, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Monstrosity
The world's ugliest dog contest
has picked a monstrosity.
And it assumes its fiendish place, 
as a gross curiosity.

It looks like a Chupacabra,
a vampire alien creature.
One look...

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Categories: sideshow, animal, beauty, dog, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
The Fairground
The Fairground
 
I remember the fairground when I was a child, there
was the candy Fairy Floss machines, and you could 
See them spinning the spider...

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Categories: sideshow, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
End of Life - 2012
Senior citizen wakes up
Looks in the mirror
What's happened here?

Time has caught up
The end could be near
Nothing to calm the pending fear

So much left to do
A...

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Categories: sideshow, age, confusion, emotions, fear,
Form: Narrative
Erasure
not in the heart again
for chrissakes it's like Swiss cheese
decoffinated please I'm a yet ambulatory zombie
off his medication as usual
alternatives to logic 101 with Prof....

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Categories: sideshow, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
A Field Day For Mother Goose
Hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle
   when off to see a crooked man and woman
whilst cowards jumped over moo ving little
...

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Categories: sideshow, adventure, change, confusion, faith,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Preamble
The Preamble
By Franklin Price
4/5/2105
						
Constitution			          

We the People						
In order to form a more perfect Union		
Establish justice					
Insure domestic...

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Categories: sideshow, business, change, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Faith As Poetry
If you have ever wondered what side of the fence you should be on consider this...

1.	Christ would never not buy a gun to avoid the...

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Categories: sideshow, life,
Form: Free verse
Wages of Sin
For the wages of sin is death...convicted and condemned now taking final breaths
In hot electric chairs and cold gas chambers
The voltage of vengeance stir onlookers...

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Categories: sideshow, deathsin,
Form: Rhyme
Barry Bonds
Barry Bonds Witchhunt cons

Sold out tickets make owners fond 

Money bags Pennant flags

Baseball's back

On Spots Illustrated mags 

Homerun chase

Time to contemplate

Adoring fans now say Your...

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Categories: sideshow, satire, sports,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things