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Circus Poems - Poems about Circus

Premium Member The Circus Narrative
she hears the cheering, the big drums, the cymbals and daddy’s narrative. …hears the crowd’s laughter, the clown’s are after. her heart beats rapidly at the possibility that the pail could contain confetti or water …the blind muses. she sees what she calls gray, the big elephant on parade. she’s so high on a tightwire - she exhales clouds. she sees more than the audience. she breathes the...

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Categories: circus, father daughter, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All the World's a Circus
Shakespeare, who called the world a stage, was a most insightful bard and sage, but this clown, with a smile and smirkus, says it's much more like a circus....

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Categories: circus, silly,
Form: Epigram



Premium Member The Greatest Circus Clown
He shuffled in. He wore a frown. This lone stranger was new in town, but his teeth were straight, and his aim was true, and he had a hole in his head that birds went through, and I would put all my money down, that, everywhere, the world around, he'll be the greatest circus clown....

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Categories: circus, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Circus Days
I ran away to the circus at the age of two on a sad day when it was raining. At first, I didn't know what I should do, not having the proper training. I started with an elephant and began to scrub. His skin was leathery and rough, but found I could continue with a gentler rub, when his skin...

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Categories: circus, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Not Much of a Choice
Cooper was a large and curious tiger, the bright star of a motley circus, Always out of step with others; like erring moon, of dawn skies, citrus. He was well fed and got lots of attention, like rave days of mist roses, When silver moments tell true stories, before the latterly hour closes. Whenever other tigers went left, Cooper...

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Categories: circus, beauty, color, fun, nature,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Circus
When chaos whirls like a merry go round in a haunted house, you have mastered the circus when you can stay calm. Heidi Sands 2/11/25 (C)opyright ...

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Categories: circus, introspection, life, strength,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Three-Ring Circus
walking a tightrope boos down here, cheers overhead safety-net ~ vanished ...

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Categories: circus, confusion,
Form: Senryu
Circus Act
The clumsy crazy clown with the frown had no loud lasting laughs from the crowd slipped as he chased the sly swift dog around the round ring with rainbows....

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Categories: circus, crazy, dog, rainbow, silly,
Form: Alliteration
Circus Act
Underneath the blazing sun horror widens it’s gape A merciless ploy to encapsulate gullible minds It knows you are familiar and yet you abandon your truth on the tightrope above Trying to maintain your balance But it’s tongue threatens to swallow you whole A relentless abomination with a thousand heads screams for you to tumble through the needle's eye So you...

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Categories: circus, analogy, anxiety, fate, scary,
Form: Free verse
Circus Life
Circus Life Inside, it smells like death and pain. And two beasts guard the heart of my brain. Puzzles and pieces scatter from the hilt. My spine breaks under this mountain of guilt. Colors and feelings are nothing compared to believing The awful stench inside my head. Bleeding with ink and clouded with dread. Beast number one rears its...

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Categories: circus, analogy, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member circus chagrin
the crowd dispersed in floods of tears disappointed that the spectacle was over when madness resolved and sanity became restored the clown’s persona now unmasked make up made down for a grimace a silent scream half aborted in the arena masqueraded agony exchanged for a smirk at last the lions would not have to jump through hoops of unhinged fire snakes now willing...

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Categories: circus, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Circus Romance - Duy Huynh
steady me/for a moment make the world stop spinning gift me balance to feel nothing but present, in sync, worries absorbed. despite my act – I'm precarious, awareness makes me need to cling on. perfectly poised ~ that is what scares me. why so apparently able, stood offset but...

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Categories: circus, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE CIRCUS
The trio – Jackal, Fangas, and Goblin, saw a gruesome circus in Doblin. Fangas whined and cried, Goblin turned bug-eyed, so Jackal whisked them home a squabblin’. ...

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Categories: circus, children, friend, halloween, magic,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Creepy Clown
We spied a clown with a grin, With a smile from nose to chin. He'd laugh and he'd play, In a creepy way, That scared the bravest within!...

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Categories: circus, feelings,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Circus Comes To Milton Creek
Sheriff Koplin was woken up by a loud trumpeting sound Grabbed his Winchester and prepared to stand his ground A huge elephant was walking by it took him by surprise He'd never seen one in his life and couldn't believe his eyes. A band followed the procession along the main street Along with clowns with red noses and big shoes...

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Categories: circus, america, animal, humor, western,
Form: Narrative

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