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P. T. Barnum Poems - Poems about P. T. Barnum

Premium MemberRoBo Calls

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RoBo Calls
Miracle Man
4/25/2025

I’ve a strong dislike that now borders on hate,
toward those unwanted calls that won’t abate.

I get perhaps ten or so of these calls every day,
th...
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Categories: p. t. barnum, how i feel,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberThey all loved Grams Monster Cookies

...When I am old I shall be an acrobat Granny Fee said.
People will cheer and stomp their feet at me
The clapping will be thunderous
I may join Barnum and Bailey’s right now

I think they went out ...
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Categories: p. t. barnum, food,
Form: Narrative



Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism

...Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism

Psyche wracked with agony
impossible mission to extricate lovely bones
they wanna remain permanently abed.

I chiefly function to amass knowled...
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Categories: p. t. barnum, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUntrusting

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Untrusting
Miracle Man
8-27-2023

A beautiful face or well known name,
will endorse a product using their fame.
Many assume that means it’s better made,
but the raw truth is they’re ...
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Categories: p. t. barnum, trust, truth,
Form: Quatrain

I Still Feel Under the Weather Today April 2nd, 2023

...I still feel under the weather today April 2nd, 2023

Unseen enemy invades my body 
with platoon of green berets air
rating, and enfilading immune system viz 
Hib bully knock and sock kin me 
c...
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Categories: p. t. barnum, adventure, anger, anxiety, april,
Form: Rhyme



I Loathe Feeling Under the Weather

...I loathe feeling under the weather...,

especially when nasty elephant 
(named Thomas the pachyderm)
stomping to break loose courtesy tether,
where antibodies of mine 
struggle to band together...
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Categories: p. t. barnum, 12th grade, adventure, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSoul Searching

...What do I know of soul?
Nothing but its close conspiracy with death
As the soul disconnects and flies when we die.
The world's soul can be seen in the clouds,
And death looms and hovers high
Ove...
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Categories: p. t. barnum, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJeeper By the Dozen

...A ninety thousand dollar Jeep,
And that’s a standard one, no less!
The ‘23 Grand Wagoneer
Conquers the school lines best, I guess.

If Coleridge dreamt of Rubikahns
With pricing up among the st...
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Categories: p. t. barnum, america,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIn the Meadowland

...Over in the meadowland the birds are singing
Warm weather portends the returning of spring
The bees have set about their pollen bringing.

Hopeful, bright spring days with excitement ...
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Categories: p. t. barnum, spring,
Form: Villanelle

Premium MemberRemnants

...Looking back helplessly 
at every foible like Epimetheus. 
Born like a weed in the steamy morning,
I was an aimless crude creature spinning
flamboyant cobwebs like a confident fool.
I slathered ...
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Categories: p. t. barnum, allusion, imagery, introspection, myth,
Form: Free verse

Come Back Little Sheba

...barnum would have been proud
bulldogs in too twos
embraces for show
disks and dark booths
raw raws
scaffolding on saxophones
Scotland-yards of curtains
damp mermen
virginia     sweet william ...
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Categories: p. t. barnum, dream, mythology,
Form: List

Perched On Figurative Shoulder

...Perched on figurative shoulder...
taking devil's advocate stance...,
with sharp eyed cognizance
of course Joe King abidance!

Wild eyed traitor Joe Schmoe,
albeit Democrat subjects himself to g...
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Categories: p. t. barnum, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse

Awoke With Existential Nihilism Since Birthday Two

...Initially, an attempt 
sought regarding Das scribe,
yours truly donning checkerboarded rawhide
collared, cuffed oversize raiment, pride
and prejudice obscured
courtesy hand-me-downs
couture als...
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Categories: p. t. barnum, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Follow the Folly

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There’s a monkey tag-team of mo-rons 
running things   ~   Polly Would Pinocchio style
Dumb and Dumber dolts 
got dim a dullard king Dumbo
dunce chair directing

Elephant Man, with t...
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Categories: p. t. barnum, humorous, perspective, satire, word
Form: Alliteration

Little Known Holidays Occurring On February Fifteenth

...Little known holidays occurring on February fifteenth...,
awaiting commercial sponsors to become...
what else...,but hand over fist money makers?
(http://www.holidays-and-
observances.com/februar...
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Categories: p. t. barnum, america, appreciation, celebration, february,
Form: Free verse

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