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The Circus

July 16, 2012
By annie.j02 GOLD, Elverson, Pennsylvania
annie.j02 GOLD, Elverson, Pennsylvania
12 articles 2 photos 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will” – George Bernard Shaw


The tent is veined with stripes of black and white,
The crowd inside is cheering with all their might.
For them to witness such magic,
Such trance,
To them it’s just like the beauty of a dance.

I step through the tent doors and look around me,
All is dark except dirt instead no floor.
You look around and see the people at the edge of their seat,
All waiting for the girl on the target to become the lions meet.

All viewers watch, waiting for the performers to crash,
At the end they see that the show was a smash.
The audience tries to find a glitch, or invisible strings,
But at the end, all are spell bound when the fat lady sings.

What’s magic to me,
Is when the woman rides the white horses,
They are Beautiful and wild.
It’s as if they are floating on air,
Immune to gravity and space.
There’s something about this place,
Wither it be illusions or strings,
Or recordings or metal rings.
No matter the secrets, no matter how they achieve
To me its magic,
I never want to leave


The author's comments:
I love the circus. It is full of inspiration. I am actually working on a short story about a magical world in the circus.

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annie.j02 GOLD said...
on Jul. 27 2012 at 2:35 pm
annie.j02 GOLD, Elverson, Pennsylvania
12 articles 2 photos 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will” – George Bernard Shaw

that has to be the best comment i have ever recieved! thanks so much and YES i def. will

on Jul. 27 2012 at 2:22 pm
albinotiger GOLD, Gloucester, Massachusetts
13 articles 0 photos 186 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win&quot;- Stephen King<br /> &ldquo;In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate&rdquo;- Isaac Asimov

I have never been to the circus but your poetry makes me belive that im acually there! (maybe check out my work sometime)

annie.j02 GOLD said...
on Jul. 25 2012 at 11:08 am
annie.j02 GOLD, Elverson, Pennsylvania
12 articles 2 photos 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will&rdquo; &ndash; George Bernard Shaw

Thanks so much. This is how I usually write so I am really glad someone has found it decent.

on Jul. 24 2012 at 11:18 pm
Tessa073 SILVER, Deerfield, New Hampshire
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This is really pretty. At first I thought it was just a one layer poem just about the circus but then it went on and became more layerd and about something real and I really love it!