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Best Strongman Poems

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


The Big Top
When I was young, I wanted to run away to the circus.  Then one day I realized the circus was life!  Are we...

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Categories: strongman, metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Breaking
At some point we'll all break
under the dark weight of living..
from the purple hearted soldier
to the people of a wayward god
the circus strongman with 
a...

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Categories: strongman, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Day
My snarling flash drive 
numbed my approach
as I drove fifty clicks
into the morning, still dark.
I did obeisance
to my tyrannical inbox,
it showed no mercy
to either side...

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Categories: strongman, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trivia Trivia Trivia
Two rats can have over a million descendants
In eighteen months, talk about prolific
Don't know about all youse guys out there
But this guy finds that quite...

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Categories: strongman, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Give God the Glory
As thoughts travel from the mind to the heart,
And spoken words cause my lips to part,
Spewing forth praise, honor and glory as an art,
This is...

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Categories: strongman, faith, father, words, heaven,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Judgment
Bang the gavel. Bang it again. 
   It's Judgment Day for my children.
Bang the gavel. Bang it again.
   I sit on...

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Categories: strongman, father daughter, father son,
Form: Rhyme
My Shortest Story Ever
There was a tall strongman called Tony; he lived in 
the tallest storey building, in a lulu town known as 
Lorry Town. He always spat...

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Categories: strongman, life
Form: Prose Poetry
Bleecker Street
Bleecker Street, a name associated with New York City in the section of Soho
But makes Bleecker Street many don’t know
Just what made Bleecker Street unique?
It’s...

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Categories: strongman, adventure, beauty, celebrity, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Fall
With apologies to Albert Camus

I once was a circus strongman,
Sovereign of midway spectacles.
I wore a leopard-skin loincloth
And a lion-claw necklace.
My club was seasoned hardwood.
I proudly...

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Categories: strongman, allegory, life,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Pardon Me Mr Trump
Dear Mr president

I seem to be in a spot of bother,
Would you please grant me a pardon
before you depart the oval room,
 
Seeking a change...

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Categories: strongman, abuse, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trivia Trivia Trivia
Two rats can have over a million descendants
In eighteen months, talk about prolific
Don't know about all youse guys out there
But this guy finds that quite...

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Categories: strongman, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Jump On Johnny
A wagon full of them 
happened to pass by mine 
at dawn
Their voices raised as one
attuned to match the demands 
of the current social trends...

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Categories: strongman, adventure, community, culture, discrimination,
Form: I do not know?
April Ninth Four Score and Eleven Years Ago
How fast the years did clip and leap away,
till your Earth orbitz count ninety decades
+ uno journeys orbited around mister sun
encompassing metaphorical magnum opus
figuratively paginated...

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Categories: strongman, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
Mechandroid
Mechandroid 
Mechandroid 
 
 
Eye was always small and never given much to physical displays or showing out 
and fits of strength were not my...

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Categories: strongman, on work and working,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trivia Plus
Rats can have over a million descendants
In eighteen months, talk about prolific
Don't know about all youse guys out there
But this guy finds that quite horrific

You'd...

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Categories: strongman, fun,
Form: Rhyme

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