Nostalgia 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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Dancing

We were married in the Spring. 
Everyone came... 
It was a beautiful day, 
that I will re-live in my heart, 
again and again, forever and...

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The discovery at aged seventy
Explained to me at last
The source of my problems 
From way way back in my past.
Not just a clumsy country idiot,
All...

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A candy dish in cobalt glass
Reflecting temptations
Beneath the heavy cover

A hairbrush fuzzy with gray down
From the head it combed
On nights spent alone, awake

A cast iron...

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If I could hold you one more time 
       and feel your dancing arms in mine. 
  ...

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heartstrings fluttering
this woman’s soul revives highs —
only seventeen

9/3/2019
Maureen McGreavy’s Sing Me A Senryu Poetry Contest
Song: Dancing Queen...

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Ballroom dancing
Big bands, Hollywood glam
Chiffon decorated dance floor
Men were gentlemen, women were ladies
Decent formality
And etiquette
Stardust...

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Sound of gravel crunching
On a lonely country lane
Then parking neath an ol’ Oak Tree

Radio softly playing
An ol’ George Jones song
Of broken hearts and misery

The hypnotic...

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On dancing waters I saw wet dreams
on dancing waters I was born to believe
on dancing waters I lived but could not breathe
on dancing waters I...

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Sometimes I sit in wonder,
Thinking about
All the stories
I so fondly
Remember from Uncle
Walter; telling me
About his experiences during WWII, oh so many 
Years ago.

There were so...

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Crawl out of my skin

Perhaps I’ll dance with my own skeleton

To the beat of rattling bones

To the rhythm of deafening tones

 

Without flesh I’m free

No...

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ghosts of yesterday
   promenade across my screen,
       tapping in the dark...
      ...

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‘ The  Art  Of  Dancing… ’


Oh ! … How I Love To Dance
Why… Do I Love To Dance ? …
… it’s Rhythmic...

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valse,valet a,highland fling
viola,fiddle,music string;
minuet,pavane rondeau
tripping lightly to & fro.

flirty dancing,fancy free
quick-step and ladies excuse-me;
fox trot and last waltz slow,
holding close,as passions grow....

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