Short Tightrope Poems

with him im walking a tightrope
i still need a safety net...

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With no bottom in sight
Searching for a tightrope
On the edge...

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tenuous
budget
tightrope
dance
slips
      into
    freefall...

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The part of me that loves her 
won't let go
of the parts she hurt...

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~ high tightrope walk across, quite fidgety, but we walk it anyway ~




Date written: 01/14/2022...

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GOING TO DEFEAT THE DILEMMA


heaving sighs I grip my walker tighter  facing the tightrope ahead





(c) sally young eslinger 1/15/23...

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A funambulist
Walks the tightrope
Between mind and heart ~ 
An error of judgement
Places love in jeopardy

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Bob Hope was the most clever "dope"
To cope with the tinsel tightrope
That nosey Limey
Could laugh, "G'blimey"
Whilst eluding Donald Trump's grope!...

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There was a tightrope walker named Zella
Who all people thought was one brave fella
He took their dare
And with a flair
Tiptoed cross falls with opened umbrella...

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Speak the truth
at your own risk
Wager fortune
for just one kiss
Walk the tightrope
of joy and pain
No past or future
—the moment gained

(The New Room: January, 2024)
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CIRCUS 


Exiled from native homes
Slave creatures imprisoned, 
Forced to do tricks,
Tightrope lions, clapping seals.
Elixir of grotesque clown disguises  
Drab animal lives....

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Ann was an aging acrobat
That is until she became too fat
To sit on a flying trapeze
Cavort or leap with any ease
When the tightrope began to bend
Ann's acrobatics came to an end...

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   Walking the tightrope so narrow
      Careful not to lean to either side

   Public safety over here, freedom of speech over there
      ~ In the end, administrators so damned scared
...

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Two Empire State Buildings fly by Earth
Phobos will crash into Earth on Mars Day
Careless Martians created our universe in Pluto's lab
Pluto walks a tightrope over underestimated solar flares...

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Across uneven terrain
  tightrope-walking
narrow mountain passes
  dodging sniper fire

He carries her picture
  tucked into his heart
From that wrinkled photo
  his thoughts ne'er depart...

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Few of us, excluding window cleaners,
And tight rope walkers,
Are not afraid of heights,
Yet we are all walking the tightrope,
That is life,
With greed on one side,
And need on the other side....

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We’ve lost the ability
to laugh at ourselves …
P.C. humor both lifeless
and dry
Our levity as tepid
as our character flawed
Fraying the tightrope
—awaiting a fall

(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)...

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There was a wife of a tightrope walker
oil his tightwire to surprise the actor.
When arose holding long pole 
crowd roared, he slipped into roll
no net; with an ugly scowl turned to her.


3/3/2020...

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Breathing in clouds on a tightrope,
a mountain to each end,

I dance over howling canyons...
To the side of earth on which you stand.

I will make it there.

Vernal beloved, I will make it there.

X...

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walking the tightrope
between sanity and insanity

how little it would take
to lose my balance

the slightest breeze
~ really 



AP: 3rd palce 2022, Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on August 2, 2022...

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A ram ready to love the wind in the tree
 Roused by the action of the sea
 Intellectual walker on a tightrope of glee
 Emotional and warm as honey fanned bits bee
 Stinging fire to the eyes, preserving privacy...

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Think I'll go on Jeopardy, I know a bunch of stuff
Like who's the first dude to walk a tightrope in the buff
Sadly needed a poop
And wearing no suit
Pooped on the spectators, apologizing was tough...

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Think I'll go on Jeopardy, I know a bunch of stuff
Like who's the first human to walk a tightrope in the buff
Sadly needed a poop
And wearing no suit
Pooped on the spectators, apologizing was tough...

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Blossoms,
pink and cherry,
alabaster and puce,
herald the vernal equinox.
Sol arabesques lightly on His tightrope,
balancing His time equally,
stirring His audience
to burst forth with
blossoms.
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Have I descended into the doldrums
Or are the doldrums
Either side of this tightrope I walk?
It's not the black dog
This could be shaken off
But I'm so used to being on this tightrope I stand still
Maybe I need to read up
On acrobatics...

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