Candy Free Verse Poems

Hand in hand we walk ~
cotton candy and caramel apples,
music, rides and fanfare,
sounds of joy and laughter in the air.

Let the festivities commence:
flashing lights and...

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Always beside me 
No matter where I am going 
She sits there she's watching 
If my tears are all gone 
Her eyes they are asking...

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we know more now than we knew then
.
we were younger
smiles came easy
and memories were made
like spun cotton candy
and one pony carousels
.
there were fewer reasons to...

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Laughter 

 I laughed with a Pride,
My laugh was lost with a shame .
Smile faded away like hot air.

Jokes where bad towards me .
Anger spread...

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Carnival Nights Poetry Contest
Robert James Liguori

There was a special carnival set in my memory
Rides, games, and food, cherished, and a prelude to our first kiss
And...

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Flavor of eve grows rancid
Neath this lamp where all was sweet
Minty eyes savoring lips
Buffet of emotions thrilled;
But candy coated with lies

You were not mine to...

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Written: July 30, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori

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The carnival...

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On a warm summer evening
we are pinned together on the octopus ride,
twirling with excited pleasure.
Even the breeze we swirl through
cannot cool us down,
for the passion...

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snowy white with shiny granulated crystals
pink yellow and red candy sprinkles on the top
brain freeze at first bite...

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we …
sat here once …
so long ago it’s a dream -
a mirage of another life,
like a desert’s distant, fiery fog …
we were brine,
I, salt to...

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i …

swim you ...
like a river, wild
feral flesh, fiery ... merged
my press to your moans and motion
clasped in warm rapture
minds, mouths, mids
emotions spin
like sugar into...

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FLYING SWINGS*
Flying swings,
Built on the thrill of gravity’s gentle hand,
Lift us up, strange birds
Into the turning sky
Where joy sways with the breeze,
Childhood's dance suspended in...

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What’s wrong with me? I’ve been asking myself this all week.
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I weigh questions coldly and logically. Then...

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Helpless Winners At The Fair

Clone Wolf
 Tantrum Rages 
  Leader Of The Pack…

Careless Sycophants  
 Elephantile Contagions
  Self-Defeating Victims. 

The Old Irony...

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A cocooned cacophony of crickets serenades  overgrown fields,  
drowning out the creaking of rusted cars long since abandoned.  
Maroon and sable tents...

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