13 Ways of Looking at a Circus April 2014 | Page 26

As I walk home
I try to relive the
Wonderful moments
I had in the circus.
Clowns, lions, and acrobats
Are all gone now.
Vanessa

All the performers were
Going out of the tent.
It was sad.
Back in the real world
My car was waiting for me.
I got in my car,
Looking at the circus…
I don’t want to go.
Kevin

When I came home
There was a big, fat cat
I ran inside and got a Kit Kat
I look outside and see that fat cat
Just waiting there in the night.
Jordan K

The sunset was in the background,
It was a long day.
What started as a light brine
Became a heavy down pour
As I stood there seeing a blackbird
On a branch of a tree.
Allen

II
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three
blackbirds.
III
The blackbird whirled in the
autumn winds.
It was a small part of the
pantomime.
IV
A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a
blackbird
Are one.
V
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
VI
Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
The shadow of the blackbird
Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood
Traced in the shadow
An indecipherable cause.

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