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Dancing Clown Constanza

Who is this funny dancing clown who entertains throughout the year with painted frown and brush stroked tears? His dizzy spins go round and round 'til orange hair and polka dots look like a crazy spinning top. Then plopping down upon the ground as children laughed until they cried at funny dizzy crisscrossed eyes. There, where his frown was upside down, the happy circus filled with smiles as other clowns ran in the aisles. Now laughing loud without a sound and gaily dancing as he left, belying inner tears he wept. Who is this funny dancing clown? His dizzy spins go round and round, then plopping down upon the ground, there, where his frown was upside down now laughing loud without a sound.

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Date: 11/15/2017 5:34:00 PM
This is charming, Craig: I love how you have taken a line from each stanza for the closing. We went to the final show of Ringling Bros Circus last year. Sad but brilliant.
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Craig Cornish
Date: 11/15/2017 9:33:00 PM
Thank you Suz but the credit for the final quintain being part of the poem is Connie Marcum Wong's---it is her form Constanza that inspired my write (see my new contest)--It's fun, give it a try.

Book: Shattered Sighs