Modern Dance Poems

Life and Death in two separated clusters, Klimt draws conflicts.
The serenity of his cycle of life is bright in pure color, he depicts.
A modern dance...

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THE BEAT GOES ON

Types of music can expose a schism
Between classical and modern rock
Modern jazz and gentle ’50s swing
Generations divided by such a thing
And hymns,...

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Moulin Rouge

The greens and pinks magnetize to my eye
Like flowers abloom, in a field espied;
That overwhelms creation’s invention
With beauty of grandiose dimension
Shifting to the wind’s...

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In Ongata Rongai's club, a memory song weaves,
A tale of Newton Karish and daring thieves,
Late '90s, New Year's Eve, a lively show,
A sold-out crowd, in...

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I
a low buzz,
maybe a hum? under
my note.
I hear it—see it.
give up the piece
or keep it,
     keep it.

art with children, new, gray.
Blessed...

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To the modern dancer: It's your objective to be off the ground longer than being on it ... And make it look easy....

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Dance of the Spheres

As clear crystal fiery stars dance through the Milky Way
The music of Heaven’s spheres vibrates harmonies -
In dainty minuets comet’s trails and...

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Sotoba Komachi is a modern Noh play by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970). Mishima's play is based on an ancient work by Kan'ami Kiyotsugu (1333-1384). The first...

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Outside you just see the marquis,
it’s ancient lights all glittery,
amidst a city past it’s prime,
hallmark of a more genteel time.

This was a movie palace once,
now...

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Song from Aella: Under the Willow Tree, or, Minstrel's Song
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17 or younger
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch

MYNSTRELLES SONGE ("MINSTREL'S SONG")

O! sing unto...

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FOLK DANCE DWM

      Attended Summer Camp at high school level
      A happy happening, I would...

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There was a Jewish man from Andorra
Who singed his rear end on a menorah
   Sparks flew to his feet
   Providing this...

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Miraji translations into modern English



I'm obsessed with this thought:
does God possess mercy?
—Miraji, translation by Michael R. Burch



Come, see this dance, the immaculate dance of the...

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Her name was Anarkali, 
an eloquent carnival of legendary beauty.
a dancer in the court of Emperor Akbar.
Deep russet rouge blushed her red,
a silky smile on...

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