Download or read book Poetry from A Sad Clown written by David Lalone and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David LaLone is a native of Lansing Michigan, where he lives with wife and two daughters. David has a degree in theology, which he thought would be used in full time pastoral ministry. This however was not the path his life would take. He wrote many of these poems while struggling to understand his role in ministry. He identifies with the persona of the Sad Clown. This clown is a marionette waiting for God to pull the strings. He is sad, and yet he is meant to make people smile. His poetry often swings along such pendulum emotions. His faith is stitched into every line. David is a lamenting prophet using his god given gift of words to paint the images that rise up from within and without. These are poems written in his late twenties. He has felt the thrill of graduation and the fear of the real world. He has started a church and watched it fall. He has invested in ministry to watch him fail. He has seen death and prayed for life from his wife's womb. David shares his life. His poetry is a window into his soul.Everyone knows that clowns are supposed to make you happy. So when as clown looks sad we are perplexed on what to do. I think this is a good image of the poetry in this book. When I wrote them I felt like I was in a sad clown season of life. This is not poetry meant to be depressing but like a sad clown it may make you a bit uncomfortable. I hope that these poems are able to impact you in a powerful way.
Download or read book Poems of a Clown written by Ron Batenich and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in this book you are about to read are factual to me, as they are fictional to others, yet all do touch realities for some. Most do hold a message for many if read properly, which is any damn way you wish. The message or moral will slap you in the face, just as I have been slapped and tortured to write of the things I do. Yet I have not suffered the hardest blow ever struck but have had but a taste of life and accepted life as it comes to me.
Download or read book The Poet and the Clown written by Andre Marquis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poet and the Clown is a compilation of 24 original thoughtful and humorous poems. The author's poetry is wonderful motivation for the new millennium, designed to lift your spirit, challenge your intellect, awaken your romanticism, and tickle your funny bone.
Download or read book The Clown and Other Poems written by Evan Gwyn Williams and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Clown at Midnight written by Andrew Hudgins and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Recklessness and rigor, in equal measure, mark the stirring poetics of Andrew Hudgins in this fine new book. Hudgins can wrestle a rhyme scheme into submission with one hand tied behind his back and can penetrate the black heart of history with a single, subtly rendered detail. He laughs with Democritus and weeps with Heraclitus and, line by distillate line, contrives a tonic antidote to “the acetone / of American inattention.” — Linda Gregerson In A Clown at Midnight Andrew Hudgins offers a meditation on humor with a refreshing poignancy and cutting wit. He touches on love and nature, but at its core this collection is about the consolations and terrors, the delights and discomforts, of laughter, taking its title from a quote by Lon Chaney Sr.: “The essence of true horror is a clown at midnight.” Skillfully probing paradoxes, Hudgins conjures the titular clown: “Down these mean streets a bad joke walks alone / bruised head held low, chin tucked in tight, eyes down / defiant. He laughs and it turns to a moan.” Hudgins gives us utter honesty and accessible verse, exploring moments both uncomfortable and satirical while probing the impulse to confront life’s most demanding trials with laughter. “Hudgins’s poems are often funny, hinging on a joke or wisecrack or malapropism, but human nature red in tooth and claw has always been his greatest theme.” — BookPage
Download or read book The Many Tears of a Black Clown written by B.C. the Black Clown and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote these poems over the course of three years while I traveled from coast to coast. Some are about religion and some are just my observations of human interactions.
Download or read book The Armpit of Doom written by Kenn Nesbitt and published by Purple Room Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids love Kenn Nesbitt's hilarious poetry! With their rollicking rhythms, playful rhymes, and mischievous twists, kids can't stop reading these poems. The Armpit of Doom includes seventy new poems about crazy characters, funny families, peculiar pets, comical creatures, and much, much more.
Download or read book The Book of Clown Baby written by Gerry LaFemina and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. This is a double collection of playful and surprisingly moving poems rooted in a theme of circus life. THE BOOK OF CLOWN BABY explores the fantasy existence of Gerry LaFemina's character, Clown Baby. Occupied by visions of trick horses, parades and high-wire acts, Clown Baby relates the fantastic to the common reality where he finds himself. Similarly, in the Figures, LaFemina, with his profound gift for image, captures the wonder of the big top, as imagined and recreated in children's play. Gerry LaFemina's poetry collection THE PARAKEETS OF BROOKLYN received the 2003 Bordighera Prize in Poetry and was published in a bi-lingual edition of English and Italian. Among his honors are prizes from the Academy of American Poets and fellowships from the Irving Gilmore Emerging Artist Foundation and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. The former editor of the literary journal Controlled Burn, LaFemina now co-edits with poet Dennis Hinrichsen Review Revue, a journal of reviews, interviews and prosody essays. Currently he directs the Frostburg Center for Creative Writing at Frostburg State University where he is an Assistant Professor of English.
Download or read book Circus Circus written by Lee Bennett Hopkins and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes eighteen short poems about the circus and its performers, with illustrations.
Download or read book The Farmer and the Clown written by Marla Frazee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whimsical and touching images tell the story of an unexpected friendship and the revelations it inspires in this moving, wordless picture book from two-time Caldecott Honor medalist Marla Frazee. A baby clown is separated from his family when he accidentally bounces off their circus train and lands in a lonely farmer’s vast, empty field. The farmer reluctantly rescues the little clown, and over the course of one day together, the two of them make some surprising discoveries about themselves—and about life! Sweet, funny, and moving, this wordless picture book from a master of the form and the creator of The Boss Baby speaks volumes and will delight story lovers of all ages.
Download or read book A Clown at Midnight written by Andrew Hudgins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award finalist Andrew Hudgins offers a meditation on humor, ruminating on the consolations and terrors, delights and discomforts of laughter.
Download or read book Class Clown written by Pino Coluccio and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Larkin meets Larry David: lyric poetry about love, death, and erectile dysfunction.
Download or read book Pity this Clown and Other Poems written by Pam Croome and published by . This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Class Clown written by Pino Coluccio and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyric poetry that is light without being frivolous, for people who are more punk than prog. This is poetry that doesn't try too hard to be important, instead revelling in its utter lack of importance and celebrating man's right to clown around — often his only defense against a cruelly stacked deck.
Download or read book The Happy Clown written by Warren Padla and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are prose poems that all try to send a message of love, hope, nature, and spiritual awakenings. Above all, each of my poems, if u dig deeply, should bring to light my deep and strong feeling that the most important goal in anyones life should be a search for love.
Download or read book The Death of a Clown written by Tom Bland and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Bland's The Death of a Clown is an audacious and essential take on authenticity, alienation and sexuality that simultaenously estranges itself from and relates to its audience. Audience, rather than readers--this book is performance, mask, role play, seminar, B movie and YouTube clip. A peep hole into the most shocking of all our roles: human.
Download or read book A Clown Trapped in a Glass Jar written by Sharon Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
