Short Audience Poems

Short Audience Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Audience by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Audience by length and keyword.


My Eurovision

When Abba wowed the audience:
the only part I've ever seen!
Oh, and the bearded lady who
(I think) was a drag queen.
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


Audience of One

Convincing myself of my own importance
  —I became an audience of one

(Bryn Mawr College: Pennsylvania: January, 2014)

What Is - Is

Truth needs no audience
or vows of acceptance
The eagle flies highest
— when flying alone

(Dreamsleep: April, 2024)

Premium Member Legerdemain

circus magician
dazzles with his sleight of hand ~
audience in awe


Date written: 02/15/2021
Form: Senryu

Minister, Mr Gulay

Our minister, Mr. Gulay Has an interesting sermon today But, the choir is yawning And the audience is sleeping!
Form: Clerihew


3-18-19

Uncertain the journey,
Unsure which way to turn
Jump, dig, swim, burn,
Failure needs no witness,
The audience gathers anyway.

Premium Member Clerihew Stravinsky

Composer Igor  Stravinsky 
an overnight sensation came to be
He got the ballet audience ro sing 
his praise with Rite of Spring
Form: Clerihew

Alice Alligator -Tongue Twister

Alice alligator anxiously awaits for an audience of awkward anteaters. Copyright © Cynthia Jones Mar.19/2005
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A Joke

Once I thought I made a joke.
The audience blinked.
I tried to explain it.
The audience stiffened up.
That's my joke on my joke!
© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.

Musician

A public coward
who fears to talk
but wraps words
with a forest
of beautiful noise
to deceive audience
that he/she is terrific

Icicles

I pushed
to take the stage
past my talents merit
to an audience
of silence
and stares
icicles
to harpoon my heart
for daring.

Premium Member Zen mode

heart, jugular notch and third eye
have chosen to dance today
they perform for an audience of one
soul delights at the divine play
Form: Rhyme

Sleep

Sleep is a god that grows after day,
And which the high and low,
Eyes shut must fall and deadly obey:
How it is an audience-free show!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Bloodthirsty Audience

Onlookers stamp and shriek for blood
Wanting gruesome
Hoping for death
Gladiators face off
Not wanting to disappoint thrill seekers

The 16 Word Show

Echo 
chorus
vibration 
sound

stage
boom
audience 
rapture

fervor 
fire 
feeling
abound

somewhere
time
moment
capture

An Audience

There's no safety net
For the heights I have to reach
To convince your mind
I should have an audience,
My heart face to face with yours
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Oom Pah Pah

The drum drummed
The  guitar strummed
The trombone oom pah pah'd
The audience clapped 
Because they were rapt
And some called out Hurrah
Form: Rhyme

A David For David

ziggy stardust struts- -
david bowie peers out
at the audience

written for Cyndi’s contest, with my very best wishes for David and Geraldine
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member The Dance

A beautiful face but

Dancing is not good 

and it stuns onlookers

She gains confidence

Arrests the audience

But nothing surprises
Form: Verse

"the Messiah" - Performed Live

Upon the first strains
The entire audience stands...
Sing Hallelujah!!


(Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus"...King George II started this tradition)
Form: Senryu

Premium Member My Love For You

michael kissed me
he pulled the love from me
beneath a thousand shing eyes
our audience agreed
of our first love
two hearts emerging
from untrod paths

Premium Member The Contortionist

the contortionist
    makes audience cringe and cheer...
                  simultaneously



Date written: 08/22/2020
Form: Senryu

A Difficult Audience

I chaired the meeting
a difficult audience it was
I saw in the attendance
fragments of husbands
foliage of broken wives
and little bits of pupils
Form: Imagism

Audience of One

Writing for confirmation,
  all words now zero-sum

As each returns, my ears embrace,
  —an audience of one

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Nate

There once was a lad named Nate
Who in the spelling bee did participate
But the audience did blush
As poor Nate got flush
After failing to spell constipate
© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

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