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Circus
I juggle books like the clown I am; / A chapter of this, a passage of that, / The words touch my eyes but refuse to go deeper,
@ivorysmiles
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TELL ME ABOUT WHEN I WAS BORN - FOR EMILY: PART 1, AT FOUR YEARS
At four, you took my hand and pulled me to your bed, / your small form cuddling, curling, you urgently said, / "Tell me… tell me a story! Story, make it long",
@gary-brocks
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The Dire Carnival
Dancing at my windowsill she calls, / black bottomless eyes and a jagged smile / tug me from sleep with a broken-glass laugh.
@beth-ivy
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Circus
A circus lives inside my head / Fortune tellers control my fears / Clowns are in charge of my humor
@Rebecca-leven-hill
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Carnival
On the land molded by footsteps and ruled by obnoxiously bleached clowns, / Visited by swarms of neighborhood guttersnipes and the opulent from uptown. / Allured by the traditional Irish circus music and the grinding of rusted gears,
@aditya-garikapati
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The day the circus came to town
The posters said tomorrow / At eleven on the dot / The Mishkin Brothers Circus
@roger-turner
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singsong silly circus girl
perfectly poised, i paint poignant statures / alive yet devoid, an entrancing actor / diamonds and daggers i dazzled through
@BlackAndWhiteStars
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Sad Clown
Satirical sadness / said the face of the clown, / Under the big top
@silent-screams
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Not My Circus
When your children / Near berserk us; / When the maitre de
@don-bouchard
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Circus
I can remember / women with dark skin and ebony hair / entangling limbs with mine
@everett
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never fall in love with a circus clown.
the circus train comes to town once a year, / carrying Russian ballerinas & corporate America dropouts. / she brings an irresistible bouquet of
@yellahgirl
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Circus Love
For lust is a tightrope, / soldering fickle hearts, sewing passion. / Fade at its end,
@arhatkay
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Freak Show Circus
Put me in a freak show / What do you see? / Go to big top
@silent-screams
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The Circus Show
I'm walking on a tightrope, with no balance and net below. / Swaying back and forth with an old weak trapeze. / Putting my life on the line as the dagger hits the rotating wooden board, and so the lion roars, me vs lion.
@roses-behind-every-thorns
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Stillness in the Circus
I am Bear Lady / and you are Toucan Man — / Fur and feathered backs
@courtney-pruitt
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A Circus Act.
Like walking on a tightrope / Thinner than grass / There's no nets below
@senpaimoon
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Circus of Love
Twisted / and broken / Dancing
@chauntelle-laflen
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The Birdfeeder
There’s a concert in my back yard / solos and duets all day / a circus with acrobatics
@glenn-currier
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piñata
it's been a circus blur / a whirlwind of uncertainty / smothers me with unfamiliarity
@banananas-bananas
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Circus Wonderland
Dramatic faces and dancing clowns, who's next to make a frown. / Acrobatics and tiger tamers. / Creepy smiles, chills down your spine, oh look? there's Alice In Wonderland with her time rabbit friend. Creepy places, so eerie and dark, don't you want to come with me and see the other side of Circus Wonderland? where every creature comes to life. Even the unknown.
@EmotionlessEmotions
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Fun house Mirrors.
When I was a little girl I loved going to the fair. / seeing the clowns / rides
@Xander-King
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🤡Clown on a Tight Rope🤡
A massive weight shifts between my shoulders. It’s another fight, I am getting older. One more step, I grow bolder. See me out there, on that thin wire. Juggling my life at the same time trying to aspire. The pain didn’t set me back; it lit in me a fire. Your words sharp like a blade and my heart for hire. Elusive to the noise, I climb higher. / I’m eviserating the catacombs of an empire. / I am not trying to scale the ladder. I’m tearing it down to the mire. I am not dousing the flame, I am feeding the fire.
@BlackHat
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Light of the Carousel
Twinkling lights / Signs painted with gold / Screams fleeing from carnival rides
@micah-elise
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