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Docmaverick
United States
Submitted by docmaverick on 31 August 2007 - 7:05am.
Style / Type:
Western Classic
Today will be a three ring circus
the performers have yet to arrive,
I’ll do my best to entertain
as long as I’m alive.
I’ll jump through the flaming hoops
I’ll do a juggling act,
I’ll even be the ring master
and will introduce each act.
I’ll get up there on the tight-wire
I’ll walk from north to south,
in one ring I’ll tame tigers
and put my head in a lion’s mouth.
And after selling all the popcorn
and putting on my worker’s cap,
I’ll be following all the elephants
and be cleaning up their crap.
I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back
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Is the internal logic consistent?
Written after a hecticly bad day.
(2 votes)

So cool!
I jump through the hoops for my customers in the bookshop every day, and sometimes have to cop their crap. A perfect workers allegory.
I hope you don’t mind me saying this on the public page but you have expressed doubts to me about your quality as a poet. Fear not. You are a bloody good one.
cheers,
Jess