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Tightropes Poems - Poems about Tightropes

Premium Member Walk The Tightrope
... We were visiting good old Niagara Falls, the most beautiful place on earth. With its waterfall cadences and fresh lit sun, who could ask for anything more. Hand in hand we strolled together we......

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Categories: tightropes, appreciation, memory, missing you,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Victory Is Overrated
...They call it a race, but it feels more like a circus— tightropes stretched over flames, clowns tripping over their own pride, while I, in my worn sneakers, stroll past their delicate egos. Le......

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Categories: tightropes, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse



At a Rock Climbing Party
...At a rock climbing party, It’s cool to observe Both the kids who are cautious And those who have nerve. The daredevils clamber To get to the top; Neither ziplines nor tightropes Will cause t......

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Categories: tightropes, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Little Lie
...I chose to tell my Little Lie To the world, and to a friend – Just this once – myself I told – And never more again I spoke it nonchalantly Yet – slowly – did exhale My breathing thin and sha......

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Categories: tightropes, mystery, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tightropes of the Three Graces
... "Tightropes of the Three Graces" Tightropes for hanging clothes on a line each piece pegged wooden held between closed fences misfortune's breeze lifts sleeves ......

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Categories: tightropes, little sister, love, sister,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Logos
... "Logos" always there walking tightropes beside me pre-existent logos walking parting waves in air I turn my back on eyes that speak lost knowledge imprint......

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Categories: tightropes, muse,
Form: Free verse
New Sores Become Old Sores and Grow To Mature Into Scars
... I saw blue memoirs fell from momma's eyes, as she looked into my brown retinas. Swiftly she removed my medicated glasses, a dominant gene I carved out from papa's bottled eyes. "Oh! sorry D!......

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Categories: tightropes, africa, black love, blue,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Double Feature
...Double Feature Flashback! Three friends of childhood featuring a blond, brunette and red-head Sharing the script of summer days and rain soaked winter afternoon Unfolding documentary of roads oc......

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Categories: tightropes, friendship, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Greatest Show On Earth Two
...The Greatest Show on Earth - Two Mr. Pik lived alone, across our street All the kids knew him, dressed up so neat; Mr. Pik loved the circus – every kind - Each year, in our mailbox, tickets, ......

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Categories: tightropes, family, friendship, fun,
Form: Couplet
Love Poems Iii
...LOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage. Violets by Michael R. Burch On......

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Categories: tightropes, desire, devotion, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
The Circus - a Tautogram
...Amazing acrobats astound awe-stricken audiences. Amy always asks about acts already arranged. Bouncing bears balance beach balls. Bobby Bear bicycled behind Betsy Bear. Crazy clowns crash car......

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Categories: tightropes, animal, poems,
Form: Tautogram
Halloween Poems Ii
...Completing the Pattern by Michael R. Burch Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead who kept life’s compact and who thus endure harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds and manicured gre......

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Categories: tightropes, dark, gothic, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Parodies
...From your parapet of pity you prophesize and proclaim, That the widows of the tailors dug two shallow graves. To mould the unmoulded into suits a crane, who makes such dreams built of rain, se......

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Categories: tightropes, anxiety, appreciation, blue, care,
Form: Free verse
Let Sun Go
...Beams dripped, from the yellow moon And we did drown in a frenzied dance, Not dreaming, that dawn would bloom And wake us from - our mystic trance. Owls hailed us, with their wild whoops, An......

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Categories: tightropes, dance, love, lust, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Greatest Show On Earth
...The Greatest Show on Earth Mr. Pik lived alone, across our street - All the kids knew him, dressed up so neat; Mr. Pik loved the circus – every kind - Each year, in our mailbox, tickets, we’d......

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Categories: tightropes, childhood, fun, memory,
Form: Couplet

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