Line Gauthier Poet Haibun

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Life Is a Dance

How Jeff and Nora loved to see us come in to their dance studio every Sunday afternoon. These ballroom award winners taught with a joyful enthusiasm that was contagious. To the eight of us, our family formed a complete square dance set. The youngest was so tiny but managed somehow to keep up. 

How often I had imagined Nora in her ballroom gown flowing gracefully twirling across the dance floor. It was gutwrenching how Nora let herself die of a broken heart a year to the day after Jeff died unexpectedly on the operating table.



                                                               in a cloud of shock
                                                               swirling at heaven’s gate
                                                               our ballroom visions




AP: 1st place 2021, Honorable Mention 2022

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Alkas Poetry November 1, 2020 at 3:47 AM a poetic vision that only a poet could dream of ... dear you could comment to me again ... salute alkas Line Gauthier August 17, 2021 at 4:53 AM Thank you very much, Alkas ~

Silent One October 29, 2020 at 12:37 PM How sad when someone dies from a broken heart.. Line Gauthier October 29, 2020 at 4:46 PM that's the down side to having found your soulmate ~ the price to pay