A Quiet Day of Rest
...A quiet Sunday, with its first sun rays and shadows,
Ceasing to be such by a whirring of implements.
The tools wielded by the day of rest sideshows.
Pushers and blowers of the bible’s antithesis.
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Categories:
sideshows, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Memories of Sideshow Alley
...You could hear the sounds
of sideshow alley blaring out
from a mile away. The hollow,
metallic rasp of music
and glow of coloured lights rose
in a huge bubble
above the beach.
Adolescent dr...
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Categories:
sideshows, beach, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Question Mark Tale
...Goddamn smartass squirrel goes through a window and starts slapping a plush toy.
Turning it over and over.
"You got jacked, !"
Up on its attention antennae, sealed in clover.
Up for all comers, ...
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Categories:
sideshows, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Flawed Masquerade Carnival
...Flawed Masquerade Carnival
Upon the midway of imperfection,
The traveling human circus, “illusion” of perfection,
A masquerading “mask,” in carnival unmasked,
Lies “cracked” in equinox
Like “t...
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Categories:
sideshows, life,
Form: Free verse
Well Earned Hug
...Whispers from a golden sycamore,
it willingly dispenses green leaf secrets to us souls in autumn phase.
Branches creak but somehow never break despite the brittle onslaughts from an ever changing v...
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Categories:
sideshows, blessing, color, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Circus Is In Town
...Come join the unraveling circus
quite soon to be passing our way,
with the clowns in a clamor to twerk us -
line up as they lead us astray!
Arriving, the elephant trumpets
agendas of aberrant ...
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Categories:
sideshows, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Fuhgeddaboudit
...On a bright day
I will be
Grabbing a drink at the bar
Brighton Beach, it seems so far
Coney Island is where you'll find me
Sideshows and Hotdogs
Where I need to be....
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Categories:
sideshows, adventure, beach, day, food,
Form: Prose Poetry
An Unroasted Bean
...tonight
cold rain fell as heavy snow
flakes fat with polar dew
roads turned to sideshows
skies black as crows
but the java tastes off
(beans must've turned south)
as I haunt crowded cof...
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Categories:
sideshows, introspection,
Form: Free verse
You
...You
I see
In my mind
As memories
Kissing me by way of mental pictures
Through sideshows of intimate encounters
Briance my love
In memoirs
I see
You...
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Categories:
sideshows, love
Form: Tetractys
Personal Sideshow
...It was a five ringed circus
Complete with the ragged remains of a tourniquet
Heavily fringed by the under eye baggage of a bloated nefarious
Clown soul that is
Blowing across the freeway garnishe...
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Categories:
sideshows, lifeself, self,
Form: Free verse