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Big Top Poems - Poems about Big Top

Big Top Poems - Examples of all types of poems about big top to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for big top.
State of the Union
... We have to scratch and claw through life, ‘til we can chip off a little bit. Then hold on tight with two closed fists, and we must never let go of it. Put it back for a rainy day, and never ......Read the rest...
Categories: big top, poetry,
Form: Lyric



Bedtime Circus
... Each bedtime makes me a night-clown, Minty paste seltzers every tooth. Puppetry for sleep at sundown, Ends in a circus, dreams of youth. Tamed at knee in dress of cotton, Each bedtim......Read the rest...
Categories: big top, night,
Form: Quatern
Pee-Wee Herman
...His name was Paul Reubens but many people knew him as Pee-Wee. He was a famous entertainer and he lost his life at the age of seventy. When he starred in Pee-Wee's Playhouse, he entertained childre......Read the rest...
Categories: big top, celebrity, goodbye, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Away In a Circus
...Away in a circus I’d lions to tame. Controlling the wild beasts Was my claim to fame. Lions were escaping, ‘Twasn't me they'd eat. Quickly, they ran past me Hunting for fresh meat. Acro......Read the rest...
Categories: big top, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Circus of Sadness
...In the realm of emotions, where torment resides, A man's head turns into a circus of sadness, it hides. The carnival of thoughts, a chaotic parade, Where reason and sanity begin to fade. Within......Read the rest...
Categories: big top, crazy, depression, emotions, how
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Tatters
...The Big Top falls Kicking the sawdust In anguish A painted smile Is wiped away......Read the rest...
Categories: big top, child, farewell, sad,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Circus Is Coming To Town
...Excitement explodes with anticipation today, Colorful flyers say the circus is coming to town With animal acts, clowns, and music so gay. Soon the big top will be going up, a holiday......Read the rest...
Categories: big top, celebration, fun, happiness, summer,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Raining Again
...“This circus is falling…” It’s circa 1997; I’m in Charlotte, NC It’s a 13-week consulting gig, my longest ever I come home every few weeks Long days at the customer site A hostile environment;......Read the rest...
Categories: big top, loneliness, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bread and Circuses
...bread edible, necessary nurturing, sustaining, supporting sourdough, wheat; big top, entertainment laughing, clowning, applauding nomadic, enjoyable circuses w......Read the rest...
Categories: big top, word play,
Form: Diamante
Premium Member She Is a Star of the Big Top
...Razzly dazzly with high pink hair Devours cotton candy high in air Acrobatic Cinematic She swiftly shows up others with her dare. She shines so brightly, there is a glare. Wears outrageous co......Read the rest...
Categories: big top, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Blue Furry Squirrel
...I was sitting under a huge oak tree,                                with a cool breeze covering over me.                                What did I just see,<......Read the rest...
Categories: big top, blue, cat, humor, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Day I Saw the Elephant
...Pile drivers have replaced gandy dancers And Mayflower trucks the circus, open-cage parades Horse drawn down Main Street U.S.A., But overnight canvas bosses still command Roust abouts to raise ......Read the rest...
Categories: big top, america, growing up, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Drama, Missed
...How do you rattle an orchestra I wonder wandering the empty stage No lights no go do this do that Tell them all about it! Its outrageous, over the top not the big top bear you in mind and......Read the rest...
Categories: big top, environment,
Form: Free verse
Fortitude's Daughter
...Wonder's Mother, Misery Digging up the philosophical topic: Disputing bliss as the ultimate state. Argues that striving for worthy causes is crucial to satisfaction. ......Read the rest...
Categories: big top, analogy, change, conflict, philosophy,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Happy Circus
...THE HAPPY CIRCUS I am just a one man circus doing all the twists and turns To entraining crowds, on the turnstiles the money burns No cruelty to animals here as these animals run the show Wit......Read the rest...
Categories: big top, animal, appreciation, cool, crazy,
Form: Couplet

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