Clown me, please.
Paint a smile on my face
and give me huge clodhoppers.
Stomp with me through muck and lies.
This bulbous red nose?
Not from weeping.
It toots raucously –
my exclamation point
to your inane arguments.
Living in this three-ring circus
it’s the only way to survive.
Clown me, please.
lillian the home poet 
Oh, this is great. I love the wording you chose. “Clown me” is excellent. Brilliant piece!
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Thank you, Lucy! So glad you enjoyed. One of my favorite things to do is to verbify — using nouns as a verb. “Clown me” came to me as soon as I read the prompt so I went with it. 🙂
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I like how you use the clown gear to cut through the …. we face today.
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Yup. You got it! 🙂
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🙂
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The world is crazy… but not god when we have crowned the jester the world is going down.
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I’m not a clown fan. There’s something tragic about the buffoon who exists simply to make people laugh. I know, there are people who we laugh at because they are genuinely ridiculous…
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Remember Jane, comedy is based in fear; we laugh because we relate or are jubilant tragedy is not happening to us. Both you and I were on the same wave length today. So I clown you “poet of the day”, and long may you reign.
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Excellent!
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Love this piece, Lillian. We’re on the same vibe plane tonight, I think…
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I will clown along with you. Take care.
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I like the circularity of this poem, Lill, like the circus ring where the clown is mostly found, and his big round nose. But I’m with Jane and Björn, I am scared of them and sorry, as Jane says, for the buffoon who exists simply to make people laugh. I also agree with Glenn about comedy being based in fear, that we laugh because something is not happening to us.
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Brilliant writing!
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kaykuala
Living in this three-ring circus
it’s the only way to survive.
Clown me, please.
Yes, Lillian, with all these pandemic thing the circus might just offer a respite to all the sadness and gloom!
Hank
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The world could use a little levity.
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“Clown me, please.”
Oh my gosh, I love that. So clever.
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It definitely is a “mask” we all choose to wear to soothe what hurts. I love your word choices
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That is a creepy picture. I definitely don’t want to be “clowned”. That is a nightmare to me.
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What a great piece of clown art …. with a poem to match.
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Well written Lillian, and great picture!
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ah! clever way of turning the word into a verb. felt the desperation, Lillian. heartfelt.
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