Loving the Daring Louisa

There once was a young gentleman trapezer
 
Whose secret love was The Daring Louisa
 
When she flashily flew one hundred feet high
 
Her sequins and tights were a treat for his eye
 
So Macca took many a risk trying to please her.
 
 

Came the night they performed in Stockholm City
 
Young Louisa and Macca were feeling quite gritty
 
As they took to the height of the highest stand
 
For a dazzling flight that would meet hand to hand
 
But he missed and hit the net more’s the pity.
 
 

Hot tears flecked her costume with burning mascara
 
As she shinned down the rope so far but no farther
 
Then leaping across the swaying net
 
She landed on top of her winded pet
 
Crying gladly she untangled her dazed McNamara.
 
 

With his head tightly squeezed through the safety ropes
 
Her frantic demeanour rekindled longstanding hopes
 
That perhaps she yet loved him and saw him as hers
 
As she dusted him down and made running repairs
 
Their star-spangled courtship trumps those of the Soaps.
 
 

Love blossomed aloft for our vaulting high fliers
 
The Big Top roared approval and also Town Criers
 
As Louisa and Macca clasped love to their hearts
 
And laughed as they tumbled in stops and starts
 
For love conquers all and applauds the bravest of triers.

Although not strictly a Limerick, the poem is written in the Limerick form.