Are you with me? (A pome...)

Question

Park the car and walk the distance

Pay twelve dollars for admission

Clear blue sky and soft breze blowing

A perfect day for all fair-goers

Aromas entice, visual delights

Sounds of music surround

Tell your fortune for a dollar?

Gooey fried cheese, funnel cakes,

Would a quesadilla please ya?

Hand tooled leather

Hand woven sweaters

Beaded jewelry and sparkly things

Sure to empty your pockets

Children laughing with painted faces

Juggler tossing his swords

Fun for all ages can be found

Giant slide and tilt-a-whirl

Hot buttered corn, ice cold beer

Tonics to cure what ails ya

Crying babies with sticky faces

Fried turkey legs, mac 'n cheese

......on a stick?

Flavored milk at the dairy barn

Sky glider ride, setting sun

Time to go home

Answer 1

This State Fair is so wondrously described. We had them when I lived in the State of PA, but I've not gone to one in many years. I had forgotten all about them until this po-em.

Answer 2

This is a pome and very tantalizing and descriptive.  It would not take much editing to make this a poem. Like line 2: drop pay and then read.  Now as to those mac' n cheeses on a stick are you going to tell me that these were invented in Wisconsin?  lol  I think they need to be renamed to "Doctor's Delight".  Thanks for taking me to the fair.

Answer 3

That was pretty good,

I like the descriptions(:

Answer 4

I picture a "crier" standing at the front gate singing

this vivid description to those in line, "gearing"

them up for their day! Yes, I was 'with' ya!

ma

(don't know the difference between poem and pome, sorry!)

Answer 5

I really needed that... a fine poem it was... having been to the Pike Place market Seattle on Sunday morning all this makes perfect sense to me... except for $12 parking, the slide, the whirl, and sky glider... I exchanged that for a trip to the top of the Space Needle.

...oops and no 'roni on a stick... but a glutton of other unique choices.

Answer 6

Oh, Reenie - this is so......America.....for me, I can picture exactly what you are saying, even though I don't understand some of the references.

I've seen a lot of poems which aren't half way as good as this.

Next time you go, can I come, please, please?  I promise not to be sick after eating a fried turkey's leg, a mac 'n cheese(?) and an ice cold beer.

Lovely - I've been reading lots of teenage angst to-day and you've cheered me up.

Answer 7

you might want to shorten the poem for it is too long. but i like it.

Answer 8

You have added fresh paint to a summer memory.