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Carny Poems - Poems about Carny

Carny Poems - Examples of all types of poems about carny to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for carny.
Premium Member Slots poker machines unsolved murders Illinois
...Lake county music company filled with slots carney folk real carny folk the little pete's illegal gambling road show throughout the Midwest gaming like your idol Frank Peter Balistreiri the ......Read the rest...
Categories: carny, america, beautiful, blessing, integrity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pontius Pilate
...You ask of me silence as I Rome Saint peters square gathering hymns beneath Di Vatican where Satan sits in solitude a prisoner of haste awaiting a time to live a time to give malice a wretc......Read the rest...
Categories: carny, baptism, father, feelings, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Carny Day
...Its wet and drear in London dear, the pomp in on full trope Though hope is gone, not dead for Jesus is the only hope! Its foolish to trust in others; dopes.' In robes and words In fear and force, ......Read the rest...
Categories: carny, angst, appreciation, dark, education,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The ''Elephant'' Children --
...The True Gothic Tale Unending of Manifold Monsters Doomed "The biological rarity captivates each freak of nature." -- the Coney Island Sideshow by the Seashore * * * The creep......Read the rest...
Categories: carny, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God Money
...dollars dance ... in the eyes of angels plates at the ends of pews passed strategically in tempo to burnish words (even more strategic) pretty sheep buttered and wagging like the smooth ton......Read the rest...
Categories: carny, analogy, corruption, discrimination, money,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Perspectives
...*Image of A Sad Clown by Sponsor. perspectives dreams to be a doctor made my carny parents sad~~a clown I am 2023 January 01 *HMS.......Read the rest...
Categories: carny, angst, depression, fate, sad,
Form: Monoku
Playing the Fiddle
... Riding off into the Ivory Palace sunset, in a pitch-black limousine, no less Hear the heavy metallic chariot roar, leaving exacerbated fumes echo deplored Aural palette, enamel pes......Read the rest...
Categories: carny, allegory, future, history, visionary,
Form: Couplet
Dog Years
... Man, it’s been four long dog years! Forlorn doggone tears of toil and trouble It’s a flee collar fact, this feels like forty years of Sirius jaw smack: Loss leader of the pack ......Read the rest...
Categories: carny, leadership, parody, perspective, satire,
Form: Burlesque
No, Not Really
... Gonna miss the days of those scathing diatribe rants Gonna miss duh daze of that diss-gruntled miscreant Ask me what is my most fond memory, silly Waxing poetically ‘bout the wr......Read the rest...
Categories: carny, emotions, feelings, longing, self,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Fraudian Slip
... Don’t pardon those demockratory quips, them dishonest mistakes Unless you love walking thru a field of verbal cow chips Beware! Aye lips very often halitosis snip Here is a rue unpa......Read the rest...
Categories: carny, corruption, humorous, muse, word
Form: Rhyme
Blare Witness
... Blow blarney bugle blow The bogus sound waves echo bifurcated notes That hollow sting tone has a subtil serpentine drone Toot the tout timbre tune deceptively Let the stealth vibrati......Read the rest...
Categories: carny, corruption, metaphor, money, truth,
Form: Alliteration
Have I Been Too Long At the Fair
...Have I been too long at the fair? by Michael R. Burch Have I been too long at the fair? The summer has faded, the leaves have turned brown; the Ferris wheel teeters . . . not up, yet not dow......Read the rest...
Categories: carny, absence, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Balloon Man of Carny Lane
...Here he smiles and there's such joy again! Blue balloons and red; faces at the windowpane. Now a green one, then a brown; With his orange hair, why, he's a clown! Sunrise yellows, pinks and pur......Read the rest...
Categories: carny, children, color, fun, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Two Faces At the Same Time
... She looks like a Mede, talks like a Persian Got Democrat soft bray skin, but underneath is hard tusk tongue Republican Girl Pharaoh-day loves to zombie talk Friday, while sleepwalk ......Read the rest...
Categories: carny, allegory, imagery, satire, word
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Double Zero
... One man, one vote Listen to the double zero poll echo One man, one vote is power transition farcical A national joke One man, one vote is very unpopular electoral Lever pull oke......Read the rest...
Categories: carny, hilarious, parody, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme

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