Frivolity Finale

Finally leaving the stage after
Twenty  seven encore calls
A huge sense of elation as 
The last curtain finally falls.
There’s all the media interviews 
That she has yet to face
Then perhaps she can retreat
For a while to her private space.

Treated like minor Royalty 
When she visited her mum 
Back home in Barnsley after
She’d danced the Sugar Plum 
Meets with the Toreador
To world wide praise and acclaim
Boosting the popularity of Ballet
To make her a well known name.

They called if Ballet meets Martial Arts
In its brand new and radical form
With just a little adjustment period as it
Settles down beside the accepted norm.
She’s toured the cultural centres 
Of the whole of the civilised West
Where her radical performances
Have Easily passed the quality test.

She’s contemplating retirement
Doesn’t want to tour anymore
Would really like to settle down
With her beloved Toreador.  
The Arts world is in turmoil
As it enters the current century.
It’s as though it’s been released from
A hidebound cultural penitentiary.

They’ve all had to put away
Their rose tinted glasses
As this  new art form is welcomed
By the uncultured  masses.
To be fair they  are trying 
To do their very best. 
Grand Opera meets Wrestling
Is soon to be  put to the test.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022


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Date: 10/31/2022 12:38:00 PM
Some of these stars have a difficult time "turning their sparkle off" - "Then perhaps she can retreat For a while to her private space." - I hope that she can!
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Terry Ireland
Date: 11/1/2022 12:51:00 AM
Thanks again Caren - I think we can now safely say she is, for the present at least, fully retired, though keeping in shape
Date: 10/30/2022 2:42:00 PM
I can see it now Domingo & Bartoli vs Andre the Giant and Hulk Hogan in a tag team….. Wrestling and opera, a command performance at the palace, or is this just a bad dream ? Love it Terry, you did it again !!!
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Terry Ireland
Date: 10/31/2022 12:04:00 AM
None of our stuff is on video sadly. There are a few of mine from before I met Sue - we are a second marriage having both lost our partners to Cancer. Search Terry Ireland Poetry on utube and they are in there somewhere,
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Speaks Volumes
Date: 10/30/2022 3:10:00 PM
So what's the link on YouTube for me to see you and your lovely wife performing in 2017 ???? Please don't tell me that such an epic performance wasn't videoed and placed on public media for all to see. I will be most disappointed if you say it wasn't and encourage you both emphatically to video ALL your performances in the future. You have fans. you know.
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Terry Ireland
Date: 10/30/2022 3:02:00 PM
In truth, thank you Wendy. Frivolity was a stand alone poem,, parts 2 and 3 were your idea. Thanks again for the suggestion. As an aside Sue and myself performed with a Dutch Drama/Comedy Group when Hull was the City of Cukture in 2017. One of the slots was Poetry and Wrestling, and we followed rheir enactment of a Ritual Murder. Life stranger than fiction?
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