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Clowns Poems - Poems about Clowns

Clowns Poems - Examples of all types of poems about clowns 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 clowns.
Send In The Clowns
...Do you treasure perplexity strive to confuse doubting the obvious pandering the ruse Do you live inside cloud cover avoiding the sun exposure avoided your fear on the run Do you hide b......Read the rest...
Categories: clowns, confusion,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Jack of Hearts
... ~~~~~ The players were hangin’ ‘round but were all headin’ for a fall, the room was quiet except for the drillin’ in the wall. The curfew had been......Read the rest...
Categories: clowns, parody,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Introducing the Rhymer
...Oh, how I love my home, good ol’ Gotham City! It’s just enough grimy and just the right gritty. It has Batman, the greatest crusader against crime. I wouldn’t leave this cesspool, nope, not anytim......Read the rest...
Categories: clowns, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Her Ruckus
...Provocative tears and a face that frowns accompany a costume so ornate; She’s happy to come and entertain us, with a flip tumbles in the Queen of Clowns; Playing the Fool’s a charasmatic trait, ......Read the rest...
Categories: clowns, emotions, feelings,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
No Brave New World
... In the meta-versed binaural wish song beats, skid row streets of the bottomless pits of Metropolis/ Thebes, you are quardoned off and printed in a likeness wronged-vaped, winged to the w......Read the rest...
Categories: clowns, art,
Form: Rhyme



the Indian elephant
...The Indian elephant I knew of an Indian elephant who worked at a circus on an act where unhappy animals sit up and beg and sad clowns who know they are pathetic dance one day, the elephant ......Read the rest...
Categories: clowns, age, animal, celebration, innocence,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Deep Seas Swallow Whole
... Showered with petals, long since gone, Silk cloth exchanged for armour strong, The transparent walls imprison souls, No heart or living thought consoled. Our presence blurred in mirrors c......Read the rest...
Categories: clowns, death, deep, imagery, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Seismic Afternoon Without Form, Name Or End
...We are going to dig to bury our dead: Mother, father, sisters and brothers, Uncles, aunts, friends and strangers. We are going to inter our dead: Archbishop, pastors, Houngans and vicars. The ......Read the rest...
Categories: clowns, courage, death, eulogy, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Velle ilditues 87:63
...I am the balloon man bears eat my fingers the circus clowns grow my seeds. Forgive all of your dirty deeds.......Read the rest...
Categories: clowns, analogy, fantasy, imagination, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Circle of Clique
... Throughout my journey, A much travelled world , I have lived in many Countries from the Sublime to absurd,. Throughout my start, Day one to high school, I was always the outsider So ......Read the rest...
Categories: clowns, emotions, feelings, life,
Form: Rhyme
Prayers from the Living
...It whips legs, spins minds in a tumbler. roars with the discarded clothes of mad clowns. Bundles of fine bones and twirling feathers burst apart in a random turmoil, deer swim toward a gasping......Read the rest...
Categories: clowns, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haunted By Dreams
... Haunted Dreams I have no desire to sleep this night, or any other night, There can be no sanctuary from the curse of sleep, As dark lids close, I'm forced to wak......Read the rest...
Categories: clowns, anxiety, dark, deep, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Confused I And Stressed In London
...is everyone from Barking Barking mad? Does everyone In Lambeth do the Lambeth walk? Is Leicester Square In Leicester? Is The Elephant And Castle a place where they hide Elephants? Is Oxford Stre......Read the rest...
Categories: clowns, city, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stuck in the Middle with You
...When you are alone, you look at the others and think that one had too much ... time to think and that one … well, you surmise, they are on the brink of some precipitous ... evaluati......Read the rest...
Categories: clowns, muse, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member White Jackets and Candy Dishes
...They offer no rope nor traction. Following a prolonged icy tongue-blast a slow slide into the greasy crevasse where lie, soul stiffening white jackets. There seems to be infinite oceans of infi......Read the rest...
Categories: clowns, anti bullying, integrity,
Form: Rhyme

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