The Clown
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There is a solace in his silence, a servant of his solitudes,
As he comforts in compliance, a jester to the multitudes…
He stands alone a neophyte, struggling within his confines,
Actions that do excite, impugnable inhibition when he signs.
Master of the satirical sad, a foreordained flounder of many,
Like a narcotized nomad, wandering wills a penniless plenty…
A calamitous circus in mind, his heart exposed in the limelight,
Dolorous detentions unkind, amidst filling his formidable finite.
A bombarding bombast, with words falling to the desolate deep,
Sailing with a maudlin mast, wearing a facetious frown as to weep…
Layered with lecherous lashes, upon wounding the sacrificial soul,
His anguish turns to ashes, within continuation of his dramatic role.
A buffoon protected by providence, metamorphic minstrel of laugh,
Lacking in canopied confidence, recklessly writing his eternal epitaph…
As he mimes until the morrows, living amongst a false fading reality,
With a smolder to his sorrows, court jesting as a nilpotent nobody.
May.23.2019
By Winged Warrior...^WW^
Not for any contest
Inspired by John Hamiltons contest...
Eight-word free verse challenge
Written & Composed by Winged Warrior
Using-A male virtual voice
Background music-Pavarotti in the Italian opera-
a prologue (Il Pagliacci)-'The Clown'
Composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo...Opera title~"Teatro Dal Verme"
Copyright © Winged Warrior | Year Posted 2019
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