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Rated: E · Book · Entertainment · #2268464
Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present .
The number of poems enforces the use of blog format with ten poems per page.
March 1, 2024 at 5:26am
March 1, 2024 at 5:26am
#1065303
Clown

Though I smile and often fall down,
it’s not easy being a clown;
I may deal in silly pratfalls,
so you laugh and send me catcalls.

It’s my pain that buys me applause,
and humiliation’s the cause,
isolation my greatest of fears,
with no one to witness my tears.


Line count: 8
Rhymed aabb, 8 syllables per line
For Express It In Eight, 03.01.24
Prompt: Illustration of a clown.


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