Poetry Prompt of the Week: Write a poem about your favorite or least favorite carnival ride.
Carnival by Carol R. Ward
The carnival, the carnival! Let’s go to the carnival!
There’s games and food and rides –
Test your skill or loop the loop
It’s so hard to decide.
The carousel spins round and round
as your steed glides up and down,
perhaps you’ll choose a horse to ride
or a swan that wears a crown.
A haunted house might be there too
to give a scary thrill
with ghosts and goblins jumping out
with wails and screams so shrill.
You can test your hand at driving
and crashing into things
at the bumper car enclosure
with the cars inside a ring.
The mighty Ferris wheel spins round
and takes you way up high
the view will take your breath away –
you can almost touch the sky.
Whirling, spinning, tilting round
the Tilt-A-Whirl goes wild
from side to side and up and down
the dream of every child.
The carnival, the carnival, let’s go to the carnival,
whether you’re big or small –
so many rides to choose from
and lord, I hate them all!
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Swingin’ by Jamie DeBree
File in, load ‘em up!
Across a wide bench.
No oars in this long boat
just a cold steel machine.
Everyone in?
Arms up, bars down.
Hope you got the back seat
it’s the best one around.
Backwards and forwards
higher each time.
No touching that bar
But try not to scream.
Stomach flips at the apex
and you’re an inch off your seat.
Don’t worry, don’t look down
you’ll soon be on your back.
If Vikings had ships like
the ones at the fair
they’d be frustrated
at going nowhere.
Up and back
the big swing sways
a tire bumps the bottom
a rubber brake.
Just enough adrenaline
to wake you up
leave you refreshed and
perfect.
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Check back next Saturday for more poetry! And check the writing prompt on Monday’s blog too, in case you might be interested in writing something to submit for this weekly post as well…
