I'M Too Tired To Dance

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** An exercise: write a sonnet in iambic pentameter.

With heavy heart, I offer my remorse,
for I'm too tired to dance this weary eve.
The echoes of my workday's tireless chores
linger, leaving naught but fatigue's relief.

Oh, believe me, I hate to disappoint,
for the music tempts me to sway and dance.
But the hours I've toiled, each task and each point,
have drained me to a tired nudnik, perchance.

My spirit, once bright, now longs for respite,
to find solace in rest and heal my self.
Though my love for dance burns hot like cordite,
exhaustion demands I stay on the shelf.

Forgive me, my friend, tonight I must rest,
but once refreshed, we’ll fete and dance with zest.
.
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Webster: Nudnik = a boring person

Copyright © | Year Posted 2023



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Date: 6/29/2023 11:15:00 AM
- Lovely poem :) - Dance as long as you are young, Anais ... when you grow old - you will be dizzy with pirouettes ... then you can write beautiful sonnets :) - (Close enough for me) - hugs
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Anais Vionet
Date: 6/29/2023 7:45:00 PM
Thank you for the lovely comment =]
Date: 6/29/2023 7:18:00 AM
You were close...
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Anais Vionet
Date: 6/30/2023 12:09:00 PM
I tweaked it - now, it's PERFECT.
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John Gondolf
Date: 6/29/2023 11:44:00 AM
Close enough for government work.
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Anais Vionet
Date: 6/29/2023 11:02:00 AM
close? How close?
Date: 6/29/2023 2:34:00 AM
When I’m too tired to dance I’m certainly too tired to write a sonnet in IP; my brain tends to shut down before my body does. Nice poem Anais.
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Anais Vionet
Date: 6/29/2023 7:01:00 AM
I’m not sure that I ever wrote a proper sonnet before. So I set out to do that - THEN - as I will frequently do, I thought - what IZ iambic pentameter anyway?
Date: 6/28/2023 5:17:00 PM
Enjoyed your poem this evening. Your rhyming is so well done along with the story!
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Anais Vionet
Date: 6/28/2023 9:12:00 PM
Thanks you
Date: 6/27/2023 11:13:00 PM
A good poem. Music and dance can cheer us up. Well done.
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Anais Vionet
Date: 6/28/2023 9:12:00 PM
Oh, that’s true
Date: 6/27/2023 7:35:00 PM
Reminds of war time dances. It was good enough to read.
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Anais Vionet
Date: 6/27/2023 7:40:00 PM
Thanks, around here, where you can't swing a cat without hitting 12 poets, I'll take it =]
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