Dance Blank Verse Poems

The Indian elephant


I knew of an Indian elephant who worked at a circus 
on an act where unhappy animals sit up and beg 
and sad...

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Valhalla 

rest day
Sunday is the day of rest for most people
except for cooks, servers, and housewives 
They have Mondays
that day hasn't got many customers ...

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My way (edited)
the three famous tenors sang, MY-Way
the fat one died, and the two others 
hates each other
never appear in public together
One looks like an...

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Step side to side 
Sway to our song
Your heart is the lyrics
My soul the instrumental
Hold my hand the way Jesus held the nails
Step side to...

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The hunter knelt to check the muddy ground.
He was perplexed. The tracks were heading north.
No bears had caves on this slope of the hill.
The quicksands...

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911 affirmation: "remember to breathe"
Because to hold my breath is to keep myself from holding you
Poetry breathes you, the way I always miss how much...

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I Did Not Mean It

I didn't mean it.  

I didn't mean to hurt you,
I didn't mean to deceive you,
I didn't mean to lie,
It hurted...

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Butterina is not the faerie you see every day on Manhattan streets
you would not be spotting her sharing a Celtic Irish dance either
No matter how...

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Forgive the forgotten 

I received the post from someone anonymous
a video, not knowing who had sent it, I put the video in a drawer where...

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the dance around the heifer

To think I'm five years older than US president 
Joe Biden, I think he is senile, but he is also corrupt...

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News and lies

I read about a new type of grass keeping the reindeer 
happy and fat, this news is as far away as the military...

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small is good

There are not many big elephants left on the savannah
Near the houses where I live elephants are a bit smaller
nature did this for...

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The phone rang it was Alfred, the man most likely to be my father if he confessed the relationship he had with 
Olga, the dancer...

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thee hour of the mind the hour the soul 
masters the hearts need for growth 
bestowed between the cunny desires
 
where the muses dance the...

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A busy Friday afternoon 

Exploding plane, but not an exploding cigar, as days of fun have long since gone.
The Byzantine Empire never left Russia, either...

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