Ballet for Vowels
No eyes watch the vowel’s ballet
A masquerade dance for a, e, o or u
Graceful jettes, a happy heart chasses
To celebrate words for entrechat tendu.
Devant at the door an outcast of pas de deux
Begs for entrance to the ball ouvert -
As measured pas de chat leap on a terre blue
Waltz melody coupes the sad allegro heart.
Unseen the small graceful slender shape
Wears echappe dot for a hat
Ecarte and alone to speak of penche
All dressed up – ready to arabesque
Common dancers e, o, u and a eleve
Need new eyes to speak in releve!
Arabesque – a leap
A Terre – movement on the floor
Chasses – to chase
Coupe – to cut
Devant – in front of
Ecart - separated
Echapee o –escaped
Eleve – look up
Entrechat – weave
Jette – a leap
Ouvert – open
Pas de chat – leap like a cat
Pas de deux – a solo dance with two people
Penche – longing, inclination
Releve – Rise up
Tendu – stretch
Born out of twelve + years of dancing
6-8-21
Contest: Lipogram
Sponsor: Emile Pinet
Categories:
entrechat, dance, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Ballerina of Tears
Rippled lappings to her toes
Every years perturbation returns
To stand in deep verdant edges
Grass bank cups the legend
Of a lonely pool
Dark wisp ashen hair falls
To head bowed
She stands the Lilly naked
Shawl of her own travail
Tears incur
Soft pressed closed eyes
Remember
Each drop caught
Waves scend slowly one by one
Away from her
And in gentle water cascading
Her reflection silken
Dances
In fluidities dominion
Demi detourne, En croix, Entrechat, Soutenu en tournant
Hold her finale
Expressions of another year
In heart broken sorrow
Fails by its gravity ridden
To release her
Categories:
entrechat, sad
Form: Free verse