Short Circus Poems

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


Premium Member Quick Advice

If You Don't
 Wanna' Deal
  With A Buncha' 
    Clowns -

Stay Outta' 
  The Circus...

-Gray Squirrel

06-03-2025


Premium Member Legerdemain

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


Date written: 02/15/2021
Form: Senryu

Bystander

Surrounded by clowns
In a circus she's running
Wearing no make-up
You become the misplaced one
Flagged as a mere bystander
Form: Tanka

Premium Member As It Is To Be

Listen to poem:
Intended upended
suspended 
upside-down
on trapeze by knees,
is caught, 
catcher-clung
flung over
and righted,
as it is to be

Premium Member My Circus

Like a White Face Clown
  Others hold in high regard
  Around and around
  My merry-go-round won't stop
  To let me be a Sad Face
Form: Tanka


Poetry Food For the Spirit

By being a poet, I am bread
               food of life hope
               for being free
         I'm a circus, a laugh party...

Premium Member Cat Circus

My spirit’s laughter Pirouettes with glee at the Antics of my cats. Feline acrobats tickle My amygdala…ha…ha!
Form: Tanka

The Circus Dog

Oh man oh man look at that dog
Look at him Go!

He's swinging he Flying
is he a dog or a plane

oh no he's falling
What do I do?
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Between Heaven & Earth

Life
is a
circus act-
Where animals
dance,
a
world of
fantasy
in whick lovers
fly.

Ekphrasis/tribute to art of Marc Chagall
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Bird Circus

there's a bird circus
              fluttering, chirping, singing
                 ferris wheels with wings

Heidi Sands

10/24/22
Form: Haiku

Piccadilly

A lady who frequents downtown
Wears a frown like a circus clown
One day she fell
And bloody hell
She wore a big smile (upside down)!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Untitled

Time's been away
Really hiding,
Rains in the air,
The circus of clouds announce that,
But the hies movement
     tell what time it is.
© Wm Paul  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Creepy Clown

Listen to poem:
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!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member hopping mad

there once was a cook kangaroo

who escaped an animal zoo

but a bread bubble gin

did fortunately win

head chef at a circus revue.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member tariffic display of death defying economic acrobatics

feeling tariffic 
a bozo of a baby ~

slapping us silly


a three ring circus
waging war with a carney ~

the best show on earth
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Circus-Cease

defying death
  shibboleth
denied breath...

no more tingling
brothers ringling
  no coins jingling 

baraboo
now bare of 
  cheers too!
Form: Rhyme

My Life As Acrobat

Circus acrobat
       risk professional
        he is always
       jumping without
        safety net ....
        In life this  is   me... !

Premium Member Found a Shapely Leaf

found a shapely leaf in parking lot with a stem at her blessed feet her hips a bit out of joint her circus smile still in place
Form: Tanka

Premium Member For the sake of entertainment

Aerial acrobatics at the circus.
They have everyone in oohs and ahhs.
One slip and fall  ~ it’s all over.
Broken bones won’t be the worst of it.
fun

Premium Member For Your Entertainment


a clown 
     in town 

purpose 
     circus 

jam-packed 
     in fact 

a mime 
     at nine 

fun night 
     done right 
Form: Footle

ablaze

i’m a gas leak in your wood house bound to go up in flames becoming too weak with you a circus mouse layers of too many games
?
© Shay Old  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Grump and a Grouse

A grump and a grouse ran around town.
Griping and groaning, whining around.
So full of guff
We’d had enough.
Sent them to a circus to be happy clowns.
Form: Limerick

Leftovers

O circus, circus 
the ox and his Fergus. 
The whale took a bite of the moon. 
The carnivore gasped to see that chomp.
And the pig civilized the baboon.
© Jim Howe  Create an image from this poem.

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.

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.
Form: Epigram

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