Mystery Dancing Poems

Gusts thump the windows,
Never seen, but always heard,
Hastening to meet the tallest oaks,
Urging them to sway, bending,
Leaning as if to waltz this way, that way,
Wherever...

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Shared enthusiastic curiosity
between two or more

May also become felt 
as mutually assured
active hope
we might make it through dinner
without seeking reparations
while digging our way
through emotionally deserted
dessert

Curiously...

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When dancing Earth's tribal rhythms
natural seasons
light and heavy step
steeped nurturing intent
anxiously dark
anticipating bright
natural exotic music
dancing muse content

While singing deep spiritual
reasons
for light and night,
glad and sad...

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Whence I did take my chisel to stone
Carved I a damsel in rock
She bore the finest curves
As men bespoke of in droves

Each part was etched...

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          On having a muse to pen poetry, for me, is a total mystery.
  ...

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As we dance the dance of life…as with each new day all the world’s dancers are convening…have you ever wondered what it is…that gives our...

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I am begging you for something
Why?
I obviously haven’t anything to gain
But why?
Why do I beg of you?
Who am I to amuse?
Who are you to me?
What...

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dancing shadows
in the winter
of my window



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on April 11, 2019...

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Standing at the window I watch with amazement
One dancer whips the air fiercely with her bottom
Another writes something in air with pointed fingers
Both seemed lost...

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What was life when you were a kid?
A ball,
A doll,
Toy-stores and stall
Mummy
The trees
The sweet park and breeze

What's life right now when childhood's all gone?

The ink,...

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"Dance! Dance!"
he constantly told his dancers.
They danced morning,
afternoon, and evening.
So exhausted they were,
they died.
Now he keeps their bones
in his closet, fastened with strings
like marionettes......

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Slow Dancing the Past
            by Odin Roark

Shadows of yesterday frozen
Even as high noon’s blazing...

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Leaf shadows 
Manically dancing
Mincing moonlight 
Into myriad motes…
Montages of mystery
Upon which
Reality floats..

Leaf shadows dancing
Withdrawing…
Advancing…
Rivulets retreating
Neath prows
Of night’s boats

Swiftly sketched…
and as swiftly erased
By leaves and limbs
Leaving...

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The devil dances on the fiddlers bow
  What you reap you'll surely sow
  He's cagey and he's clever
Before you know it he'll have...

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As night is falling
Hear...  calling
As I go out... In the eve 
Dressed up in my evening gown
As a Man comes... for me 
He is...

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