<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=532878" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Circus Clown</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Suddenly from somewhere<br>A street urchin-<br>An untamed bird of the wider sky<br>Dropped down<br>Into the circus tent<br>Before him was unfurled<br>Scenes eerie….awesome! ! <br>Roaring lions and tigers, <br>Gibbering baboons, caravans of camels, <br>Animal tamers and acrobats, <br>Artists balancing on poles<br>Swinging from bars to trapeziums<br>Pliant girls with plastic limbs<br>And pouting breasts, <br>Walking on tight ropes<br>A queer world<br>Peopled with beasts and men! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His face, painted white and red<br>In motley dress, he was arrayed<br>And a tall tapering cap, placed<br>On his forcibly tonsured head<br>He hardly knew what it all meant.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He heard the bells ringing<br>And it was time for the show<br>He was told <br>He would henceforth be a clown<br>And should make people laugh</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A thousand sunsets passed him by</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He forgot the familiar alleys of the streets<br>Lost sight of the endless pathways of the sky<br>In a world -<br>So populous- so empty, <br>He buried him<br>In the hidden caverns of himself<br>Nursing a hundred bruises<br>Inflicted by Time's sharp razors</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Often he was reminded-<br>&quot;You should make others laugh&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He did make people laugh <br>While a fountain of tears lay frozen<br>In the slivers of his broken heart! !</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Valsa+George">Valsa George</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=532878" data-title="Circus Clown de Valsa George" data-description="Suddenly from somewhere A street urchin- An untamed bird of the wider sky Dropped down Into the circus tent Before him was unfurled Scenes eerie….awesome! ! Roaring lions and tigers, Gibbering baboons, caravans of camels, Animal tamers and ac..."></div> </div> </div>

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