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Long Sideshow Poems. Below are the most popular long Sideshow by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Sideshow poems by poem length and keyword.


Premium Member Megan's Quest Part 2of7
Now Regan and Megan were down on their luck
    and faced with little or no choice.
So with a quiet trepidation... a deal was struck
    and from now all would...

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Categories: sideshow, adventure, funny, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.

I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...

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Categories: sideshow, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Understanding the Bible
Quotes:
1. "Doubt is not the absence of faith - certainty is!"  Karen Armstrong

therefore

2. "It is impossible to be a true Christian and not have doubts!"   Brian Johnston

3. “For by grace you have...

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Categories: sideshow, bible, blessing, love,
Form: Quatrain
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School

As a Halloween costume, 
one year during early grade school, 
my father got the brilliant idea 
for his sole son to be dressed 
with one of a kind getup.

Missus Shaner...

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Categories: sideshow, 5th grade, adventure, autumn, character, father son,
Form: Free verse
Chief Egalitarian Garbage Taster Ie White Trash
Chief egalitarian garbage taster i.e. “white trash”

As Halloween costume, 
one year during early grade school, 
my father got brilliant idea 
for sole son dressed
uniquely rubbish qua 
putrid offal getup. 

Missus Shaner (talon clawed, 
shriveled relic...

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Categories: sideshow, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form: Free verse



A Field Day Shoe Fit For Mother Goose
A field day shoe fit for Mother Goose
  
Fruitless effort squeezing figurative juice
Pandora called triggering 
helter skelter to get loose
necessitating Bullwinkle J. Moose
to usher at yours truly 
(an aspiring wordsmith) vamoose!

Hey diddle diddle the...

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Categories: sideshow, 12th grade, adventure, age, animal, bird, color,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Faith As Poetry
If you have ever wondered what side of the fence you should be on consider this...

1.	Christ would never not buy a gun to avoid the temptation perhaps that he might use it in fear or...

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Categories: sideshow, life,
Form: Free verse
Mother Goose Would Find Her Tail Feathers Ruffled
Mother Goose would find her tail feathers ruffled 

Hey diddle diddle 
the cat and the fiddle
when off to see 
a crooked man and woman,
whilst cowards jumped 
over moo ving little
pair of mismatched muggles,
who both walked...

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Categories: sideshow, abuse, allusion, anger, animal, baby, bird, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Upcoming Mild Temperatures Will Quickly Melt Snow
I looked outside the bedroom window
here at B44 Highland Manor Apartments
today March 13th, 2022 low and behold
took stock of soundless grounded sideshow.

Barenaked lady, i.e. mother earth
partially sloughed off 
excess weight around her girth
her downy soft...

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Categories: sideshow, abuse, anger, anxiety, beautiful, conflict, cry, dark,
Form: Rhyme
A Field Day For Mother Goose
Hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle
   when off to see a crooked man and woman
whilst cowards jumped over moo ving little
   pair of mismatched muggles, 
   who...

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Categories: sideshow, adventure, change, confusion, faith, freedom, humorous, hyperbole,
Form: I do not know?
Where Do I Go From Here
Where do I go from here     The money`s gone     So`s the wife     Need a reason to change my life    ...

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Categories: sideshow, home, day, me, night, prayer, day, future,
Form: I do not know?
Mild Temperatures Gradually Melt Snow
Mild temperatures gradually melt snow

I looked outside the bedroom window
here at B44 Highland Manor Apartments
today February 28th, 2021 low and behold
took stock of soundless grounded sideshow.

Barenaked lady, i.e. mother earth
partially sloughed off her downy soft...

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Categories: sideshow, anger, conflict, crush, grave, grief, horror, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Clown Politics
How am I doing

Well thanking you very much indeed

For being kind enough to ask

Because I am doing just fine

In fact I can't tell a lie i am actually
way far better than that bordering on
great 

Because...

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Categories: sideshow, 11th grade, political,
Form: Free verse
Erasure
not in the heart again
for chrissakes it's like Swiss cheese
decoffinated please I'm a yet ambulatory zombie
off his medication as usual
alternatives to logic 101 with Prof. Spike
far too much work for a dead end
saw his only...

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Categories: sideshow, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Your Jester Darling
Jokes on me, guess you're the roaster and i'm to chicken to say goodbye cause I waste my time wishing you would hold me closer ,the shows been over but im still seated, my vision...

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© Jessy Sue  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sideshow, conflict, confusion, heartbreak, pain, psychological, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Kids Did
Compared with us, the kids today
Too little play and too much weigh.
Alone indoors they snack and sit
And buttons hit, while we stayed fit.

We'd quickly chores and homework do,
Then dash through doors to fun pursue,
To basketballs...

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Categories: sideshow, children, fun, growing up, happiness, nostalgia, sports,
Form: Quatrain
Debaser
Opposing blades split artery walls,
 like slender ubbraided reddish hairs.
Scrutinizing concealed glands
 before a motion picture camera.

Meat to overcome oppisition,
 distressing persistance of control.
Sideshow characters resembling their reputation,
 pungent expressions of their slang.
Progress feeds the...

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Categories: sideshow, allegory, people, philosophy, science, social, time,
Form: Free verse
Incumbent Onus To Stem Tide of Global Warming
Plethora of humans (think overpopulation)
directly linkedin to planet Earth dire strait
re: environmental catastrophe, née debacle
teeters along brink tipping point inevitably
pitching civilization headlong into oblivion
Homo sapiens (minus those living off grid)
admirably self sufficient unto themselves,

perhaps ecological...

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Categories: sideshow, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
This Is My Therapy Dead Friendship 10 of 11
Some go to a shrink or psychiatrist and jabber, 
I do this anywhere anytime,
I express, pen press and feel bliss for free,
open cus opinions mean nothing to me,
I guess people don't matter cus people flatten...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sideshow, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Sarah's Story - Mental Illness
Sarah’s Story - Mental Illness

Sarah, the “Crazy Lady,” was a familiar sight,
roaming the streets any time of day or night.
Her foul body odor announced her presence,
as she paraded around in her filthy, smelly garments. 
Walking...

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Categories: sideshow, crazy, depression, hurt, mental illness, pain, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Verbal Intercourse
Strap ya helmet on 
and while you at it 
pass the keys, we'll 
ride and eat on 
words for dinner, 
homie pass the 
peas,

I don't do this on 
purpose, it's the 
way things have to...

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Categories: sideshow, on writing and wordspeople, love, people,
Form: Rhyme
Verbal Intercourse
Strap ya helmet on and while you at it pass the keys, 
we'll ride and eat on words for dinner, homie pass 
the peas,

I don't do this on purpose, it's the way things have to...

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Categories: sideshow, imaginationwords, people, love, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tiger King
Inspired by the incongruous
Joe exotic Documentary 


You think because I smile I’m
happy, well it’s one big facade,
Strut round my insane kingdom,
driving all and sundry mad,
Like the tigers in my cages,
hiding a life of pent up...

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Categories: sideshow, allusion, animal, conflict, corruption, hate, pain, pets,
Form: Rhyme
86
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CharlaXFabels 
 
American Christian 
 
True Story 
 
 A Homeless person is nothing but a distracting sideshow on the sidewalk to 
most people they can not help them ease the...

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Categories: sideshow, parody, people, satire, science fiction, social, sorry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Tiger Davis Queensland Ringer
There was a Ringer in the Basalt, Tiger Davis was his name
As an acrobatic stockman, he was gifted with some fame
On the station quite a hero, but a maniac in town
He didn't win too many,...

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Categories: sideshow, career,
Form: Ballad