Carnival Poems

The sadist found her friends
In the carnival's freaks
She lost her heart and mind
And freaked out on her kids
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The Carnival,
The Great Brazilian Carnival
With a sea of people following,
Watching the Spectacle,
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The smell of buttery popcorn and funnel cake,
The sound of children laughing and playing all around,
Leaving here without a good time would be a mistake,
Even if the carnival is open year round,
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It is not my fault my poetry is heavy. Like a book left outside in the rain. And when you go to pick it up, your arms give out because you cannot carry it. From the pages saturated and soaked in water. See I tried to make happy poems except it turns hopeless instantly. Writing about how I'm on a beach making sand castles. But except I feel the sorrow from drowning in the waves of the ocean. Or how the sky bends with blues that I feel so deeply in my bloodline. How the sun is something that I can never feel. I tried to write something happy like a carnival except I relate it to back to a rollercoaster ride. Feeling the highs and lows of sadness and grief. I tried to write about art except when I see always see a canvas filled with emotions of pain and terror. I write about being in a meadow filled with flowers except I stumble upon a rose and it pricks me as I bleed and bleed and bleed. I'm cursed with seeing the negative side of everything.
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Many at the carnival parade gather
as music keeps playing louder and louder
and dancers keep tapping their feet with a synchrony
while tableaus known as floats roll out one by one
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In the springtime when the carnival comes to town
On the dizzying tilt-a-whirl and fearsome Ferris wheel,
The haunting calliope in the musical merry-go-round
Calls to mind the adventures of a rakish teenage heel.
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In the springtime when the carnival comes to town
On the dizzying tilt-a-whirl and fearsome Ferris wheel,
The haunting calliope in the musical merry-go-round
Calls to mind the adventures of a rakish teenage heel.
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You're a warrior, the strongest one, I have ever known
So please, keep on blind me with your glow
When you're around the sky always seems so bright,
You lead my way towards the morning star.
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Carnival Comes To You
Surprisingly they jumped me on a standing train
Seeing me colorfully suited to the sounding of the day,
Dressed to the drumbeat of Notting Hill carnival.
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