The Pied Piperess
...Orchestrated they succumb onto her board scene ~ As success thrills the ordained Queen of mean—poet
Once upon a time, there was a Queen with a magic flute in her throat
Beknownst to all...
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Categories:
fairgrounds, evil, parody,
Form: Prose
wingless love
...wither
away not
to thee gifts reason
of art
wingless dove bestilled
on halfpace empyreal thy breast behooves
thee further
o'er yond clingiest fairgrounds
moor dawning flora
promising sho...
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Categories:
fairgrounds, analogy, bird, endurance, hurt,
Form: Suzette Prime
The Color of My Heart
...May I show you the shades of my colorful heart
that are airbrushed in love like a true work of art
May I play you a tune of my favorite song
I'm here to engage you and help you be strong
May...
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Categories:
fairgrounds, appreciation, journey, love,
Form: Rhyme
Seasonals
...*Image of Seasons Of The Year by Pixabay.
Seasonals
~~0~~
Time of heaven's anointing fertile grounds,
fertile nature, and beast surround...
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Categories:
fairgrounds, change, extended metaphor, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Well Played
...I was a hopeful actress, but so far had only been offered bit parts,
And I fought to pay the bills, as a starlit owl, working after dark.
But because I had such hug...
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Categories:
fairgrounds, career, confidence, dream, faith,
Form: Couplet
Early Poems I
...Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
r...
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Categories:
fairgrounds, kid, poetry, poets, teen,
Form: Rhyme
Garland
...GARLAND
By Kate H. Stark
It happened while practicing my violin.
I practiced at home on a seat near the door.
I suddenly felt a huge urge to explore.
The bluebirds were soaring up hig...
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Categories:
fairgrounds, dream, imagination, literature, music,
Form: Rhyme
In My Beautiful Balloon
...With summer nearly gone, we all wanted to do something special,
And decided it should be daring, rather than the usual and dull.
So, we listed the things we desired to do, but hadn't yet tried,
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Categories:
fairgrounds, adventure, beauty, fantasy, lost,
Form: Couplet
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...
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Categories:
fairgrounds, absence, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Verse
An Idiot's Guide To Being a Hero
...An Idiot’s Guide to Being a Hero!
There are few that aspire to the wreath of a hero,
A garland men give to a man who risks failure or death
(Should that happen) to serve ...
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Categories:
fairgrounds, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
The World's Biggest Clown
...The circus was coming to town
And of course I had to go see
For I'd heard the world's biggest clown
Was a headliner to be.
So off to the fairgrounds I went
And with the crowds high in the stan...
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Categories:
fairgrounds, political,
Form: Rhyme
Walking the Fairgrounds - Two Lenses
...a decuain
I walked the fairgrounds 1962,
a penny for my thoughts at age thirteen.
I loved to gather up loose coins with Hugh
the grandstands cleared out, we would start to “clean”
I walked th...
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Categories:
fairgrounds, change, growing up, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain
1957 Bored Out Corvette
...I had just left the Fairgrounds Race Track with my dad, where I won $13.00 on a nag whose name I forget and Dad won nothing, which mattered not since his goal was to 'celebrate' the night with his C...
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Categories:
fairgrounds, dad,
Form: Free verse
No Place To Lay My Head
...My new husband was a farm boy
who didn't like to roam.
It always took a lot of nagging
to get him to leave home.
But we were newly married,
I hadn't learned all of his dislikes.
I imagined us a...
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Categories:
fairgrounds, vacation,
Form: Narrative
Days Are Over
...Green filled farm grounds
My friends and I making the rounds
All around
the edge of my town
In my old new first car
With the bass turned up hard
Screaming
about being seventeen
All those times
Tr...
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Categories:
fairgrounds, people, old, me, old,
Form: Ballade
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