CIRCUS

CIRCUS

Circus 

Circus

Dancing bears

Clowns clowning around

Ring master running the show

Under the big top

Elephants so smart

The high wire acts

And trapeze flying

Circus 

Circus

Come to the circus

Under the big top

Allen Hollandsworth

�"10/14/11

Author's Note

Did for BEDTIME STORIES
CHILDREN'S HOMEWORK

Reviews

[Sultry Sundance]

I feel as though you are writing for a very younge age group. Perhaps an audience of 3-10 would very much enjoy your work here. I realize that is a wide range I'm guessing however, understanding your audience is an important aspect when writing of any kind. This was very fun, once again cute, inspiring and I plan to continue to read your work to see if I can figure your nitches and trends to help you. Thank you.

[Sleepless]

one time i went to a circus but i can't remember exactly but this poem is nice (:

[STAR CHILD]

glad enjoyed

[Daytonight]

Well done. You have used some really good descriptive phrases. Keep on penning.

[Jacques]

this worked very much . it must be challenging when writing for a younger age group and audience but i think they would enjoy this . the poem was very creative and fleshed out very good and this time it complimented the poem size with style and in good fashion . the words were easy and small which is a good appliance and tip when writing for younger age groups for them to understand but on the other hand , these days , younger kids know more than they put on and know words you wouldn't expect them to know as there intellegient for their age range . sometimes for me , it was nice to read something that didn't have so much wording or big words because usually in cases , it's the small words that speak the loudest or the ones that fit in the puzzle better .

[LadyKarissa]

Nice Allen, I have never been to a circus. Lucie

[J.V. Stanley]

Writing for children I have always found to be quite challenging myself, my experiences with adulthood has dulled my innocence to a degree but I do get a little breath of it whenever I watch my own children play, their awe at the world and I try very hard to see things from their innocent perspective, and the joy they get out of the most innocent or mundane of things. I can honestly remember the first time i went to the circus, just a brief memory-a clipped glimmer of my past. I was in a small car circling around the audience in the beginning of the show (I do believe it was the Shrine Circus, if I'm not mistaken). Just a mere few seconds at 3 or 4 years old. How fleeting memory is at times.

I do enjoy your work because it reminds me of that innocence and actually helps to jog my memory a bit of my own childhood and it also makes me appreciate and coddle my children a bit more. Retaining the innocence of youth is something we should all strive for because within an instant, it can be simply a glimmer of a memory.