D-istancing
E-ffectively
M-akes
Y-ou
S-afe
E-mploying
B-etter
A-nd
R-ight
R-emedy
O-f
T-otally
I-solating
N-astiness
Topic: Birthday of Demy N. Sebarrotin (April 11)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
D-ivine
E-xcellent
M-essage
Y-ields
S-weet
E-xpression's
B-eauty
A-s
R-emarkable
R-esult
O-f
T-oil
I-s
N-oted
Topic: Birthday of Demy N. Sebarrotin (April 11)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
D-awn
E-agerly
M-eets
Y-ou
Topic: Birthday of Demy Novicio (April 11)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Satin shoes, for years,
I wore upon my feet;
Bound around my
Ankles with
Expectations
I could never meet,
On bloodied toes
That languished
In a pirouette
Of self-defeat;
Wearing slippers
That tried in vain
To polonaise
Your dreams.
~~~~~~
Written: Jan 24, 2011
Author’s note: In the story of Swan Lake, it is told
that the lake was formed from tears.
Definition of ballet terms:
Pirouette: whirl or spin - a complete turn of the body on one foot,
on point or demy Pointe.
Polonaise: Processional dance in 3/4 time with which the court ballets
of the seventeenth century were opened and can be seen
today in Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty
What are tears, but shattered dreams built up over years.
All, god hears!
Showers pore over tenderness so sore.
I want more!
Why love when pain makes a big we stain.
It’s enough to drive an angel insane.
Run far away from emotions you feel have begun.
Beware it’s real!
Temptation applies right down to it’s heals.
The sole peals.
It is a lie that steadily dies.
This becomes a demy.
It takes you high then back down to a blasphemy sigh.
It becomes merely shy
But dicises itself as sweet honey pie.
Misery and love are a tie.
Make a witness upon our eyes.
It is light and dark as night.
It can also fall out of sight between boundaries of black and Wight.
You cannot hold it tight.
It’s not worth the fight.
It sells the wedding bells.
It brings it to raging hells.
Love is not what it spells.
A paining chest knows best, it will sever the covering breast.
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