Notes About The Poem
Sept- 11- 2026
Dancing Blind Poetry Contest
Sponsor- Eve Roper
Dancing to the Rhythm
Fate with its fierce claws
swooped down on her,
fearfully altering her already fatigued life.
After the death of her affectionate parents,
with none to care, the blind girl’s life
turned dreadfully damp and dark.
An orphanage became her shield and shelter.
Suddenly left under a strange stormy sky,
she was like a bird with broken wings.
While other children laughed and danced
she listened silently, secretly sobbing inside.
The rhythm of music scrawled wishful waves in her
Its notes sifted down slowly into each sinew.
She tried to remember and recite them in silence
She sang them solitary in murmurous voice,
and her legs involuntarily tapped to the rhythm.
Then came the day of community celebration
As the tantalizing, titillating music filled the air,
she rose suddenly from her seat,
walked to the place from where tuneful trills flowed.
No one guided her, but with the melodious music
brimming and beating softly inside,
she moved to the center, brightly illumined bright.
She started to sway, though never rehearsed before,
with silken steps softly sweeping the floor
and feet fluttering and floating in flawless rhythm.
Seeing an imagined audience, she swayed and swirled.
As a designated dervish, her hands weaving worship,
inner eyes emitting fire, her feet flawlessly moving,
she danced in frenzied joy, wobbling like a droplet
on an oiled lotus leaf, her body gyrating into loops,
like a practiced gymnast gliding.
On one leg, as she whirled and twirled,
everyone got lost in her malleable motion!
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