Long Carny Poems
Long Carny Poems. Below are the most popular long Carny by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Carny poems by poem length and keyword.
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 mad bomber stops Metropolis...
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Categories:
carny, allah,
Form:
Nazm
Nowhere Man
Nowhere Man
Star dust, the stuff of a fool’s dreams.
Oh !!!, to travel upon star dust streams
- that glorious, never ending journey -
into the realms, the space of many.
This old spirit, seems, not to fit into...
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Categories:
carny, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Froggy Kiss
“Truth isn’t truth,”
that’s what some Cap’n Obvious toady recently said
He was pissy mad, when his angry tears wet the bed
Lieutenant Rudy Brown-Nose
a has-been sniffing the swine caboose breeze:
Loco breath wafting
between sulfuric methane, ...
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Categories:
carny, character, integrity, philosophy, truth,
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 listening on Monday
Talking pretty contentious,
looking glossy pretentious
Her Primary job
is to give...
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Categories:
carny, allegory, imagery, satire, word play,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Immortal Gift
i'd become immortal again binding
a hardened stone catering to the sensual
needs to gather soiled stained hanker chief
a sudden removal of all earthly gesture's
i'd crawled beneath self tracing his footsteps
he guided...
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Categories:
carny, death, earth, life, me, sensual,
Form:
Chant Royal
Petit Fours Etiquette- The Soupbone Crooners
When asked what there names were
one responded quickly and spoke with a very heavy voice
saying his stage name was "Rink rasher"
and his partners was " Fresh Meat"
he shook my hand and began a conversation:
while his...
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Categories:
carny, character, culture, film, music, sports,
Form:
Ballad
Banana Republic Appeal
Peel back the onion tear squeals
coming from a televised live politico lynch rally
See the sound byte rubber duckie
teflon touting
his favorite effigy combustible hits
Penguin strutting presidential seal
got a billy goat attitude, kicking rude gutter alley
A...
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Categories:
carny, imagery, perspective, political, word play,
Form:
Narrative
The Carnival
we Waited-
the summer for the carnival to arrive-
all the rides
and all the side shows
the screams far and wide
and the carnival treats
running to get on the roller coaster
was that...
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Categories:
carny, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
The Fruit of Fantasy
I yelled and flung the empty whiskey bottle through the air
The marching high school band is getting closer
Children running, playing with the pygmy bear
The carny selling snake oil, argues with the grocer
Soldiers marching past the...
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Categories:
carny, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
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 tongue at the podium
not to follow rags, you see
no barefoot bums...
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Categories:
carny, analogy, corruption, discrimination, money, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Glooms of Gloomber Unsettling
She said his grin was as charming
as a Shoebill Stock.
Warning others of his lack of
beauty and handsomeness.
His presence caused others
to feel spooked and haunted
creating a situation hard to ignore
and forget.
Nearing 3;45 the clouds
overtook the...
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Categories:
carny, adventure, character, culture, film, literature, music, myth,
Form:
Bio
Here At the County Fair
Here we are at the county fair,
log-rolling show right over there,
and in the back, a trained brown bear,
there’s racing children everywhere.
Endless carts where the food is fried,
bizarre creations you can try,
funnel cakes always catch my...
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Categories:
carny, america, celebration, farm, fun, imagery, places, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
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 unpardonable exit tip:
Brown nose aroma
is blew gaslight, pig methane lit...
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Categories:
carny, corruption, humorous, muse, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
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 wretched fall
of genteel civility
Ask me do I believe
what my repressed heart
pain edit...
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Categories:
carny, emotions, feelings, longing, self,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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...
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Categories:
carny, angst, appreciation, dark, education, obituary,
Form:
Rhyme
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
has got a Cujo shifty,
barf shuffle
Spit pissing
constant doggie...
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Categories:
carny, leadership, parody, perspective, satire,
Form:
Burlesque
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...
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Categories:
carny, absence, allegory, allusion, analogy, autumn, child, childhood,
Form:
Verse
Lottery Tool
You got get-rich-quick dreams
dancing in your pillow head
Put a dollar or ten into the Lepercaun winners pot,
and magically enlarge
the government coffers a whole lot
That’s right ... exactly,
fatten the pockets of those swamp gator publicans
you love...
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Categories:
carny, corruption, money, wisdom, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Make Me Laugh
The music was so loud I could hardly hear myself think
as the carny's followed the crowd as if they we're the missing link
the carny's and customers danced to the rhythm of the beat
while I searched...
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Categories:
carny, dance, humor, music,
Form:
Light Verse
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 okey-doke
One man, one vote
was a woman suffrage hoax
A muzzle masterstroke
One...
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Categories:
carny, hilarious, parody, political, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
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 pestilent pain
on burnt crimson background grain
Scorching prairie brush fire
was the cruel...
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Categories:
carny, allegory, future, history, visionary,
Form:
Couplet
Ob-servant
klaus says humanity has lost its trust' so i guess to regain
It is his new must??
trump has won and now presides.' As many people are
Opening their eyes.?]
Many Americans phoned and texted when a new bill...
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Categories:
carny, appreciation, conflict, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Mi Pappy
murder sang in me where the sultriness
of hot cotton fields consumed by
old carny folk gestures given any doubt
to a freedom that ole Abe spoke of diligently
why I never dreamt a better...
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Categories:
carny, dedication, old,
Form:
Chant Royal
Worse Than
Some people’s bark
is worse than their bite
Most of their heavy big talk
sounds like
small pipsqueak speech that’s really light
They got a habit of making themselves
more than what they truly are
They got a resume that’s looks worse...
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Categories:
carny, people, truth, wisdom, word play,
Form:
Light Verse
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 purple;
Vivid colors attract little...
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Categories:
carny, children, color, fun, joy, summer, sunshine, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme