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Best Ballet Dancer Poems

Below are the all-time best Ballet Dancer poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of ballet dancer poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Life is a song
“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
Rumi

If life was a song,
what would be your refrain?

When instruments of fate performed
in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ballet dancer, muse, music,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Retired
Throw me high, higher still
Let me breathe again, 
Let me gain
height, I will
Live, smile, laugh, be filled
        ...

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Categories: ballet dancer, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member INTERCEPTION
INTERCEPTION

Shadows waning distorted fading
Teasing tempting, a psychotic hack
Scheming concealing cerebral deceiving
Sun retreating behind shades of black

Memoirs succumbing, alpha notes strumming
Hope dwindling midst each laboured breath
Dusky-eyed...

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Categories: ballet dancer, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Rhyme
The Swan
Upon the lakes they do swim gliding so effortlessly   
These species of graceful waterfowl the largest of anatidae family
In their beautiful pure white...

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Categories: ballet dancer, beauty, bird, mystery,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Rainbow Girl
I was an irrepressible and happy young woman, and graceful ballet dancer,
Who lived for twirling on a world stage, as red berries are shrub laughter!

I...

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Categories: ballet dancer, beautiful, color, depression, fantasy,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member The Poetess and Her Conundrum
The Poetess......

Suffered in angst and deep loneliness,
As her Jasmine poetry was anew and just growing.
“What good are my poems regarding truthfulness 
or honesty?
Against seas of...

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Categories: ballet dancer, freedom, inspiration, philosophy, poetess,
Form: Rhyme
Dragonfly-The Miracle Insect
Dragonfly-the miracle insect

Oh… Dragonfly, the miracle insect
You are the symbol of change and self realization 
Source of mental and emotional maturity, 
Your scurrying flight across...

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Categories: ballet dancer, beauty, insect, nature, planet,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Martha Graham, a Maverick
HANDMAIDEN OF MOON DANCING



fly me to stars in the thrill of one swan night
over a crescent arc to feel a flame of sighs,
teasing dreams so...

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Categories: ballet dancer, art, inspirational, me, age,
Form: Free verse
Music Box
Back to my sweet memory
when grandma was still there
She had a lovely music box
cordate
red

when she opened it
the box was playing
such a beautiful melody

embedded in my...

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Categories: ballet dancer, feelings,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Categories: ballet dancer, fun,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Ten Hours Sleep
We all need at least ten hours sleep
To wake up all bouncy with a cheep cheep cheep
Ready for the day
Ready to sashay
Like a ballet dancer...

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Categories: ballet dancer, sleep,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Dancers - Xxiii
Unquotabe quotes: Dancers - XXIII

Dance like Cassius Clay, Sting like Muhammad Ali.
The dancing Dervish’s ethereal trip makes the Sufi’s Qawwali breathlessness sound like the radio-astral...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ballet dancer, body, dance, joy, music,
Form: Epigram
A Happy Ending - Dark and Twisted
One day I was in a hospital,
witnessing human birth.
I took in the repulsive, beautiful sight
as Earth's population grew by one.
A tiny specimen, ready to bring...

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Categories: ballet dancer, dark, death, joy, life,
Form: Free verse
Spring Night
How finely twilight applies lipstick to the sky! 
His brush touches each fold as the sky does shy.
Eyebrows and eyelashes he so minutely paints,
As though...

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Categories: ballet dancer, seasons, spring,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Ten Hours Sleep
We all need at least ten hours sleep
To wake up all bouncy with a cheep cheep cheep
Ready for the day
Ready to sashay
Like a ballet dancer...

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Categories: ballet dancer, blessing,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs