Ventriloquists Poems | Examples

Let Me Entertain You

vaudeville stepped off the stage
and leapt into the living room
with hot topic-tuned antenna views

shy ventriloquists turned from radio
to television with a vision to be seen

juggling with eye-catching
candle-, duck-, and ten-, pins
off the bowler skids in aerial suspension

abracadabra handlers saw their guests -
half of them enjoyed their shows

hats and canes spinning, shoes tapping
all the old variety - hosts rolling eyes

acrobats rose above them all -
the fall guys, the masters of the skies

Marx, Burns, Allen, Fields, Benny
broke their audience records

showcase of holidays and war
in time with comedy and lyrics

The good old daze
replaced by supersonic, telephonic-cell
(the farmer in the dell throws down his pitchfork
to watch)
to hock back the latest, greatest craze
of series, not to purge, but to binge

staying carefully away from Burnett, Sonny and Cher,
Donny and Marie, and Ed.

drooping eyes spring glasses,
a glass of red or white…

elsewhere, the hypothalamus of the kids,
impacted by Squiddy, Stampy and CaptainSparklez

5/25/2023

One Tiny Red Balloon

Over by the corner the bandstand plays on 
next to the cotton candy wagon and the clown 
Its a circus act full of people and acrobats
and tallish men on walking wooden stilts

One tiny red balloon dots the sky as I espy  
juggling acts leading to the garden path
it ain't over until the fat lady sings
so I better not dally, I need a glass ring

Fire eaters and sweet ladies that stretch 
ventriloquists with two sided mouths 
magicians that stage with props, and coins 
cats on tight ropes, hawkers and escapists 

Silver hoops and fast delivery guys 
life is changing right before our very eyes 
Give me the candy but don't tell me lies 
of course I want the red balloon, untie!  


February 12, 2023
Sponsor	Anthony Biaanco
Contest Name	Balloons

Chin Up

It would be funny,
Instead, it's sad.
We acquire mouths
Like ventriloquists dummies,
Which can be bad.
Age does this to some,
It occurs around the mouth,
Lines appear at the sides of our lips,
And continue going south.
It's amusing and looks rather *****.
Unlike the ventriloquist's dummy
We can say clear
Chin up, have A BOTTLE OF BEER.

Famished

“Fill me up with seeds,” says the red birdhouse.
            The woods animated with
famished ventriloquists.

4/21/2021

Ventriloquism

Ventriloquists like

virtuoso uninformed

dummy mimicry

Ventriloquists

What a spectacle to watch
professional ventriloquists at play
their dolls cute and adorable
with spunky personalities galore

I just would never dream
of ever being so rude 
as to ask them to part
with their amazing secrets

‘Tis a spectacle indeed to watch
professional ventriloquists at play
their dolls ever so adorable
and spunky personalities galore



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on June 18, 2018 for contest VENTRILOQUIST sponsored by ANTHONY SLAUSEN

Seance of Six Ventriloquists

Six friends met for seance
brought their dolls
placed ring-a-rosy in the center of a table
dolls holding hands.
Lights were dimmed
and seance session started
guests cast their voices
as ventriloquists to the dolls
without moving their lips.
The dolls gossiped among themselves.
No one knew who made which doll speak.

At first it was a fun 
a round table chat.
Some tried different voices.
But then, the mood shifted
as strange new voices appeared
spooky and sinister,
with more serious tone and subject.

First one, then two people left the room
too eerie and sinister by far.
Still the conversation ran round and round
between the chatting dolls.
Then someone noticed 
the look on the doll's faces changed -
their eyes moved, they frowned a little.
Their demeanour became angry and bitter.
By then all friends had left the room.
But still the dolls chattered away
with strange voices flung afar
from ghostly six ventriloquists
chatting amongst themselves 
in the dark.

Hakiu - a Micro Anthology

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tropical frogs
now topical... endangered 
all sadly... croaking

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all frogs... leprechauns
a lucky one... prince charming
rest... green in envy

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dusk... to sit beside
a garden pond... hark... croaking
know... your not alone...

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a toad out hunting
frog-let...  prospective supper
that splash... salvation

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February... frogs
masses... spawning winter... cold
water still solid

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frogs of arctic lands
enforced hibernation... freeze
awaiting springtime

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have you heard a frog...
ventriloquists throwing sound...
there... here... where are they... 

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the pond at dusk... shush...
koi feeding... rippled water...
bliss... then a frog jumps

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Black Dummy

When you got delivered
from the Chinese kennel cell,
you gave good doggy praise to man
Didn’t have enough sense
to give thanks to God first
What’s even worst,
you didn’t thank God at all
Wrong call, black dummy
Your empty head is the size of a basketball,
dribbling offensive foul credit to flesh
With a pyramid heart ... black mummy,
you offer such weak black bury words
among the zombie tombs of the white pharaohs
Giving slavish praise to your government — 
so gratefully dead 
for them handing you leftover charity,
spoiled welfare cheese
Black dummy,
you make me wanna gag vomit and snot sneeze — 
your rank words smell awful moldy to me
When you don’t glorify God
for saving your hoop skin butt
Vaniloquent ventriloquists
are gonna keep making you say
pure vanilla dummy stuff
Even a fool won’t let themself 
be embarrased that much
Black dummy,
I guess your doormat pride
ain’t got stepped on enough
Someone done pulled some strings
for you, Black dummy — 
Put you in the front of the IQ line,
gave you the lowest number
Odds are its just a matter of time
before you do something dumber

Day By the Sea

Fish and chips salty air
Big fat bottoms sat on stripy deck chairs
Sticks of rock candy floss and bottles of soda pop
Sand castles and buckets and spades
Dad with binoculars pretending to look out to sea
But looking at the bikini hot babes
Little child paddles in the sea
Little child has a pee
Ice cream and jellyfish 
Punch and Judy ventriloquists 
Bare flesh everywhere sea breeze tussles hair
Walruses laid on beach towels everywhere
Courting couples walking hand in hand
Games of cricket and Beach ball on the sand
Annoying music steaming from someone's radio
A scream goes out as a crab bites someone's toe
The smell of suntan lotion mixed with sweat
And the smell of cigarettes
Waves rolling upon the shore
A baby wanting it's diaper changing lets out a might roar
Burgers and hot dog's from a van
Guy's with muscles parading the beach as though saying to the girls
Look at me I'm all real man
As the girls giggle and wiggle
As the hot Sun smiles down
On a day by the sea.



Peter Dome.Copyright.2015. May.

The Dummy

The clouds are ventriloquists
and I am their dummy.
I fall with the rain,
fly with the wind,
and slump over on heavy summer days.

My wooden head so perfect
that I've perfectly misunderstood
my own place.
I close the doors,
draw the blinds,
and stare into the mirrors.
I speak unto my painted eyes
and wait for a response.

One Thought Fits All

adamant energy aiding my anger management
composing into compassion in fashions that are magnificent 
we are the innocent, for only enlighten chosen have their noses
outside coincidence, perpetual planning and landing so very intimate
living beyond the internet, feelings coming out as if ventriloquists
were speaking from yonder seating, barely believing my own sentences
minus all menaces, here's where positive blesses this
consecutive benefits, to draw a collective intelligence

Ventriloquist Poetry

VENTRILOQUIST    POETRY

Ventriloquists can drink gottles of geer
Gut their skeech is odd  to our ear:
They can’t say   Keter Kiker kicked 
A keck of kickled kekkers  -  they’re  tricked
Cos they can’t say gee or kee
And nost  often not  ewen  en  or  wee.

Healthoquists  -  lots of fruit they eat:
Akkles, gananas, kineakkles, or kears as a treat
And wegetagles, like kotatoes, keas, kaggages, and geans.
All kinds of geautiful   greens.

Religioquists reskect the Koke very nuch
And of course all the gishoks and kriests and such,
And they often read  their  Gigle
Or any Good  Gook  awailagle

Koliticoquists  kossigly geliewe in reading the Constitution often enough
Gut krogagly not its Kreangle  -  too tough:
It’s well-known in Philadelphia, Galtinore,  and Goston,   say;
Gut not in the area of San Francisco Gay

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NOTE

This poem can be recited in ventriloquist-fashion without moving the lips.  
Letters    b, p, m, v   are replaced by    g, k, n, w  in normal ventriloquist  speech.

Autumn Orchestra

The sounds of Autumn
Crickets legs as violins
Locusts screech from nowhere close.

Throwing their voices
As ventriloquists mimic
While leaves are strummed by slow winds.

Lightening bugs culminate
Sight into the symphony
My personal Fantasia.

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