Funfair Poems

Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day

...Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day

Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognosticating how many more weeks of winter weather without a shado...
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Categories: funfair, adventure, animal, anniversary, birth,
Form: Rhyme

NATION OF STAMPEDES

...Nature did not unleash her terror on us
as it did with Noto, Haiti, or the Indian Ocean.
We abuse nature with the stamp of leadership which impedes lives, 
causing artificial stampedes of ...
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Categories: funfair, abuse, corruption, food, humanity,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberCarousel

...The funfair was in full swing.
And why not, now it was Spring.
To the carousel, Ella and me,
We tried to find a horse that was free.

Places on horses were taken by all
Except for one, it was a...
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Categories: funfair, fun, kiss,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberI JUST CANT WAIT TILL CHRISTMAS

...I just can’t wait till Christmas

I just can’t wait till Christmas
With thoughts of ice and snow
And Santa in his bright red suit
Shouting ho ho ho.

Flying with his reindeer
With presents on...
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Categories: funfair, appreciation, boxing day , cheer
Form: Rhyme

Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

...Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted   
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous ground...
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Categories: funfair, adventure, america, animal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberSmiling Autumn Faces

...A slight comic gust
as vivid  autumn colour
turns laughing  dervish
we sense  the quasi-winter
prelude to Halloween fare

Back to school urchins
scream with joy to spite cold snaps
Christmas ...
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Categories: funfair, autumn, beautiful, beauty, color,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberChildhood Treats

...With candyfloss and sticks of rock
Funfair rides made to shock.

Roller coaster big fast rides
All made to hide your eyes

The carousel and kiddies swings
Hoopla darts and all those things

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Categories: funfair, child,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYounger Life

...With candy floss and sticks of rock
Funfair rides made to shock 

Rollercoaster big fast rides 
All make you hid your eyes

The carousel and kiddies swings 
Hoop darts and all those things 

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Categories: funfair, child,
Form: Free verse

Voidity

...VOIDITY

Who told the sun where to position
and the moon at night to light up the ocean?
Who told the seas to set boundaries
between land, regions and continents?
Ask yourself if anything exist...
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Categories: funfair, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme

Separated

..."There are some choices in life that can never be made. One of them is, the family where you are born Into."
   - by Poet


Let me tell you a story...

She is a member of a large household,
Bo...
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Categories: funfair, death, family,
Form: Narrative

Groundhog Day 2022 Or Forty Two Days Since 2021 Winter Solstice Part Two

...February second - requires one
with acute hearing to cock, and ear
turnips tickling the nose nostrils
delicate hairs (instagram ideal outlook) subtly,
markedly, lively..., yet gently flair
soon ...
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Categories: funfair, animal, appreciation, beauty, environment,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAll the Fun of the Fair

...toffee apples
     tasted so sweet
candyfloss evaporating
                    as we eat

swing boats
        chair of planes
& helter-skeltet
            again& again

pretending to drive
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Categories: funfair, childhood, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Another Garden of Eden

...Take me to the land of crystal rivers,
that glitter like a mirror for the gods.
Take me to the height for altruistic lords,
revered by the oppressed for being givers.
I dream of a world drowned i...
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Categories: funfair, beauty, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme

There's No Need of a House Here

...How can a man live
In a place where lives hardly thrive?
We earnestly wait in vain,
The things that will never be of gain.
So the weak becomes weaker,
As the troubles become thicker.
So, everyt...
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Categories: funfair, poems,
Form: Elegy

Trusted Non Trumpeting Flora and Fauna Emerge Out

...Trusted (non Trumpeting) Flora And Fauna Emerge Out...
Of Hibernation To Rejoice Arrival Of Spring 2019

Accordingly, other than
meteorologists plenti schooled
ascertaining onset of temperate ai...
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Categories: funfair, adventure, angel, animal, appreciation,
Form: Lyric

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