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Kewpie Poems - Poems about Kewpie

Carnival of Hatred
...“Come one, come all!” The hawker summons Try your luck On the unmoored Ferris wheel Hurl a dart At the Kewpie dolls Win one for the lady To consummate the deal (Chorus) Intruders in the ......

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Categories: kewpie, allegory, america, anxiety, celebration,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member My Dream Girl
...My dream girl's not a doll, no Kewpie cutie, Or an heiress, or an actress on the screen. She's neither nun nor acrobat, Nor wears fine feathers in her hat, No frump for Trump Republican, No beau......

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Categories: kewpie, dream, humor, imagination, romance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Carnival of Carnivals
...I watch carnival of carnivals quickly unfold intense barkers are yelling as if their large bears are gold seeing ultimate thin man and fat lady never gets old fortune tellers are so unique, they’v......

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Categories: kewpie, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Figure Eights and Emily
...A slip of a girl, button-cute, pigtails flying her first figure-eights traced on roller blades Effortlessly following the crude colored chalk lines Emily aced the whole field her very first ti......

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Categories: kewpie, cute, growing up, identity,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Pink Polka Dotted Kewpie Doll
...I try to paint with a shock I realize it is giving me no thrill No joy; for the first time in six years I return to the middle bedroom darkest, gloomiest room in the house turn on my electric b......

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Categories: kewpie, woman, women,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Tivoli Deja Vu
...A place called Copenhagen, do you know its song? Joy and laughter safely ride waves of light., and summer days are twenty-five hours long. Do you still hear the sprocket's cadence and pedals ......

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Categories: kewpie, friendship love, fruit, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Purple Heart
... "Purple Heart" We are watched surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses the race marked out for us our days we count as numbers hidd......

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Categories: kewpie, courage, heart, purple,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don'T Marry Meredith
...It's funny, because I've vacuumed under your bed a hundred times in the past two years I've dusted the black bedside table picked up your Scotch and Soda pants off the floor, still jingling wit......

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Categories: kewpie, abuse, angst, family, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Standup Hugs
...Standing there Arms outstretched The haggard pasty washed up Kewpie doll Of a soon to be ex Awaited his oxytocin fix As the dutiful wench Swallowed the stench Of his distillery fermented fa......

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Categories: kewpie, break up, funny love,
Form: Free verse
Along the Shortest Road Ever a Treacherous Journey
...Along the shortest road ever (a treacherous journey) An opening appeared before me; bright equations bleeding time squished all memory of who i was, am, or might be -- a preponderance of sudden......

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Categories: kewpie, deep, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kewpie-Doll
...Four foot ten, and yet you make my pulse rise, my weakness is I love the petite size. But height's incidental, when it comes to my veneration and worship of you......

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Categories: kewpie, 10th grade, angel, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
No Bigger Than a Baritone Horn - Part I
...Round about nineteen 1971-2, yours truly bid adieu to Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School (situated at crossroads – then beau colic rural routes of Evansburg Road and Ridge Pike), where nary ......

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Categories: kewpie, growing up, hilarious, life,
Form: Free verse
Going Nowhere
...Slow motion memories. Street lit like a movie set, outside the dance hall. Muffler-less cars, full throttle, then eerily quiet. Self willed machines idling along the street, flooding the night;......

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Categories: kewpie, angst, dance, death of
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Seven Blessings
...God bless little angels brought unto me, Watch over them beneath heavens grace. My first of seven blessings most precious gift, Treasures hearts keepsakes. Number one the oldest, my rocker baby, ......

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Categories: kewpie, child, dark, dedication, children,
Form: Free verse
Pink Joy - In the Pink
...My granddaughter is in the pink From her double chins to those drawers that stink She looks just like a kewpie doll She’s chubby, pink, and oh so small Her cheeks are a rosy-pinkish hue Her toes......

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Categories: kewpie, daughter, father, happiness, love,
Form: Rhyme

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