Laugh Clown… Laugh – A Spoken Word poem

In memoriam for Robin Williams…


Delivered the joke, smiled through torment…
On humor’s wings your malady was bent.
You shared with all your gift of the jape,
For our maudlin hearts a moment’s escape.
A manic laugh ‘pon your face fights,
We raised you up to astonishing heights.

Laughing… laughing… laughing… laugh
From the depth of melancholy in your eyes,
Take flight now before us… ever higher you’ll rise.
Made us laugh ’til we did cry apiece…
Precarious… you teetered ‘pon the precipice.
Played out your suffering ‘pon the stage,
Lights… camera… the pedestal… your cage.

Cry out loud… make jest of your pain
For you ever inspired, gave hope from your fragility,
Shined so brightly for all your frolicking jocularity,
Behind the door… in the dark… burned out alone.
Did we ever see if a smile from your eyes shone.
You always were easing our lonely malady.
You made the joke from your own tragedy.

The lonely clown… living to entertain
Reveling in your hilarity taken for granted,
Your warmth… your joy… we were enchanted.
Left none to ease your heart so dolorous,
To deliver joy beyond depression’s curse.
To strive with unending adverse poignancy,
Gave joy… spread smiles… and tears of hilarity.

Dying… dying…dying to make us laugh
Laughing… laughing… laughing countenance
Hiding behind laughter, your sustenance.
Your soul laid bare… laid bare for the joke,
Poured out… poured out… ’til your heart broke.
Loving the clown to death, we cried,
Cruelest cut the day the laughter died.

Laugh clown… laugh

Laughing… laughing… laughing… laugh

Cry out loud… make jest of your pain

The lonely clown… living to entertain

Dying… dying…dying to make us laugh

© 19 August 2014, by D. Denise Dianaty

Joseph’s Angel

Daughter, sister, wife, mother… friend
She gave loyalty for loyalty to the end
Her flame-kissed hair shinin’ like a halo
That gently teasing turn of her lips, just so
Losing Dawny cuts deep to our hearts
A little piece o’sunshine torn from hearts

With her bright laughing eyes
And those one of a kind Dawn smiles
O Lord, we all need Joseph’s Angel
Givin’ us reason to laugh in the middle o’hell

Joseph’s Angel, mom to the fiercest degree
Gone from us now with the Lord to be
Laughing eyes dimmed in pain never more
Gone home, sharin’ stories on the golden shore
Lookin’ down on her Joe with hopeful sighs
In our Lord’s bosom Our Dawny now lies

With her bright laughing eyes
And those one of a kind Dawn smiles
O Lord, we all need Joseph’s Angel
Givin’ us reason to laugh in the middle o’hell

We see her now with little tricksy pranks
Laughter for all in Heaven’s ranks
We’ll miss Joseph’s Angel while we rejoice
God called her forth with His wise choice
To with the Heavenly Hosts her stories regale
Dawny’s gone Home, made new, hearty and hale

With her bright laughing eyes
And those one of a kind Dawn smiles
O Lord, we all need Joseph’s Angel
Givin’ us reason to laugh in the middle o’hell

I never imagined such a world or day
Where she wasn’t just a phone call away
Joseph’s Angel always found the laughter
In every situation of the joke she was master
She told our stories, rendered humorously
Showed us not to take ourselves so seriously

With her bright laughing eyes
And those one of kind Dawn smiles
O Lord, we all need Joseph’s Angel
Givin’ us reason to laugh in the middle o’Hell

RIP Dawn Dell Dever Connell – my sister and my friend. [11 July 1967–30 November 2016]
I never imagined a world where our Dawny wasn’t just a phone call away. When you went Home, Dawny, a little bit of sunshine went out of the world. I don’t weep for our Dawny. There’s no more pain and suffering for her. She’s gone Home to the Lord’s embrace – for that, I will celebrate. However, for now… and for a long time to come… I weep. I weep for Joseph and Wayne. I weep for our parents and sisters. I weep for myself. I weep for a world without our Dawny… without Joseph’s Angel to make us laugh.

D. Denise Dianaty
©23 July 2017

An Eagle Soars…

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An Eagle Soars…

Feelin’ the cold blue silence of forever

Another voice in the soundtrack of our lives

Flyin’ with a billion stars all around¹

An Eagle soars to join the Starman

Our heart keeps sayin' it's just not fair²

Hearts are achin’, feelin’ like screamin’
The music’s fleein’ this old cold world

Bells should be ringing this sad, sad news³

Feelin’ the cold blue silence of forever

While Death carries another legend away 

Feelin’ the cold blue silence of forever

Another voice in the soundtrack of our lives

Flyin’ with a billion stars all around¹

An Eagle soars to join the Starman

Lent to us we forgot, now lifted high

Frey-man took flight to join heaven’s band

Soaring with a billion stars all around¹

The music shimmers in every star we see

Gives him wings to climb high and far

Nothing made him turn around and stay⁴

An Eagle soars to join the Starman

Feelin’ the cold blue silence of forever

Another voice in the soundtrack of our lives

Flyin’ with a billion stars all around¹

An Eagle soars to join the Starman

Frey-man gave us the best of his music⁵

Singin’ the vict’ry song, he’s already gone⁸

And we just can’t hide our cryin’ eyes⁶

We’ll dance to remember, Won’t ever forget⁷

Feelin’ the cold blue silence of forever

As Death carries another legend away

Feelin’ the cold blue silence of forever

Another voice in the soundtrack of our lives

Flyin’ with a billion stars all around¹

An Eagle soars to join the Starman

¹Peaceful Easy Feeling 1972

          (“With a billion stars all around”)

²The One You Love 1982

          (“Your heart keeps sayin' it's just not fair”)

³Please Come Home for Christmas 1980
           (“Bells will be ringing this sad, sad news”)

⁴I Can't Tell You Why 1979
          (“Something makes me turn around and stay)

⁵Best of My Love 1974
          (“I give you the best of my love”)

⁶Lyin’ Eyes 1975

          (“You can't hide your lyin' eyes”)

⁷Hotel California 1976

         (“Some dance to remember, some dance to forget”)

⁸Already Gone 1974

          (“I will sing this vict'ry song…Already gone”)

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by D. Denise Dianaty 

© 19 January 2016

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