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Tightrope Poems - Poems about Tightrope

Tightrope Poems - Examples of all types of poems about tightrope 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 tightrope.
I don't want to wander those places where our footsteps have long since passed
...I don't want to wander those places where our footsteps have long since passed, Down shaded alleys where our memories whisper and stand guard like stone sentries, I no longer wish to hear those son......Read the rest...
Categories: tightrope, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ponderings
...Does a broken mirror reflect again? Are we shadowed by our past and sins? Can fallen flowers return to branches? Are our traumas rippling avalanches? Is fate a tightrope we must follow? Can we ......Read the rest...
Categories: tightrope, perspective, psychological, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Love and Hate
...Love and Hate Love and hate, two powerful emotions that ebb and flow in the most unexpected ways. What starts as a flame of passion soon ignites into a blaze of anger, the intensity of which is matc......Read the rest...
Categories: tightrope, 12th grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
Red and White Nylon
...Terror so concealed Its fighting for the dominance of her sight. Her eyes stretching wide and full like plates being spun on sticks The ferocity provoking her doings The tempted cat in fracturi......Read the rest...
Categories: tightrope, anger, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Walking the Tightrope
... 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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: tightrope, education, fear, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme



Bridge Walking
...walking the tightrope along the bridge, highbeams shine from passing cars, she shines brighter, giving the Earth a dim glow, one step follows another, never knowing if the other end wi......Read the rest...
Categories: tightrope, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Risking the absurd and death in every verse
...Risking the absurd and death in every verse, The poet, like an acrobat, swings over the heads of The crowd, in a world where writing is a tightrope act And rhyme is the ladder to the lofty heavens......Read the rest...
Categories: tightrope, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blossoms
... 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 wi......Read the rest...
Categories: tightrope, color, environment, flower, nature,
Form: Rictameter
Premium Member Narrow Margin
... In the narrow margin between life and death, I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing. I'm a portrayal of metaphors, illuminating like spring's moon, who sunk like winter sunset, but......Read the rest...
Categories: tightrope, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Castaway
... She talked about her family in glimpses, like she was always walking a tightrope. Between normal and just chucking it all, for the next bus that might give her some hope. She tried to paint a......Read the rest...
Categories: tightrope, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Fortunate Son
...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) ......Read the rest...
Categories: tightrope, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cats 101
... Today, class, we study the cat He or she is an acrobat Walks a tightrope 'tween low maintenance and aristocratic independence Some deem it common sense others, pure effulge......Read the rest...
Categories: tightrope, cat, education, humor,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member tightrope
...I’m a tightrope walker, strung between the hedonistic abyss of winter break and the unforgiving canyon of organic chemistry. The stack of spring syllabuses are a prophecy whispered in Latin.......Read the rest...
Categories: tightrope, humor, school, seasons, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life's Tightrope
... Some days are diamond, some are stone We all need a mix of diamonds and stones Otherwise we would miss the comparison If life was all diamonds, we wouldn't be able to Handle those sto......Read the rest...
Categories: tightrope, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member See
...5-20 Lines on: The art was most masterful on the dark canvas The genius of her life paled in comparison amongst those who balanced easily walking the tightrope Her prowess fit better in the poe......Read the rest...
Categories: tightrope, beauty, emo, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

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