DANCES ARE SQUARE
...DANCES ARE SQUARE
There are some dances where different people meet
Exchanging partners enhances the social opportunity
When one glances at another, it makes it all complete...
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Categories:
quadrille, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Euphoric Visual Gateway
...Ripples of gawk and gaze splendour,
at one’s fingertips eternally,
cornucopia an instant dream float,
golden gust garner without rein,
indulgent Pysche extract from nirvana,
but voyage of the qu...
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Categories:
quadrille, art, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Free verse
The Flaming Garter
...Like the king of Cordoba’s treasury
Reflected in a robber’s eye
A laden dish of memory
Spills into the summer night
From a moving carriage window
A flaming garter flies
With whoops an...
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Categories:
quadrille, celebration, dance, fun, horse,
Form: Free verse
Life spins on a carousel of shadows and stars
...Life spins on a carousel of shadows and stars,
A mystic ball that clothes us in dance steps, with them.
The tango of fate steals us into its hazy whirl,
And each step becomes a heated battle, abla...
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Categories:
quadrille, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In My Garden of Freedom
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In My Garden of Freedom
To no human, do I belong!
I am the afterglow of freedom’s song.
My friends bring me water and light.
The hour matters not, even at midnig...
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Categories:
quadrille, god, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
The Moon and the Stars Promise
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They will not let me sleep!
For me, they are far brighter than the sun.
Which seems to wake everyone!
The moon and stars, though to me, are the most deep.
Calling awake my poetess' sle...
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Categories:
quadrille, imagery, inspiration, poetess, poetry,
Form: Quatrain
Under Dappled Clouds
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Pale dappled clouds drift across the sky_
Chasing the sun away when she wants to peak out;
And when in the shadow of clouds- there is a chill;
But, still the pretty birds glide an...
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Categories:
quadrille, nature,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Pursuing Poetic Polyphony
...Applauding an Acrostic Aria
Bopping to a Ballade Ballet and Blank verse Berceuse
Clapping to a Cinquain Cantata and Couplet Chorale
Dancing to a Dizain Duet
Exalting in Etheree Etudes and Elegy E...
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Categories:
quadrille, music, poetry,
Form: Abecedarian
--A Star Danced--
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* A Star Danced*
So ebony soft is indeed this night.
However, only to be lit by a dancing star.
I watched with profound amazement,
At all the ballet moves it knew from ...
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Categories:
quadrille, chicago, dance, dedication, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Alice, What's Going On
...Alice, did th' afternoon grow long an' dull;
As your older sister did read an' mull?
While in your mind, boredom grew-
That you'd grown restless no one knew!
That's what came before th' fall-...
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Categories:
quadrille, adventure, cat, children, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Olympic Equestrians
...Nothing is so beautiful
as equestrian events,
watching graceful horses,
while droppings add their scents.
For true equine lovers,
there is such a thrill
in the coordination of
a well-perform...
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Categories:
quadrille, games, horse,
Form: Rhyme
She Walked With Grace
...She walked with grace through grassy meadows
pausing to smell the sensual fragrance
watching the rabbits dart down their barrows
their white tails flashing creating a drama
Azure skies blazing, ...
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Categories:
quadrille, dance, dream, love,
Form: Sonnet
The Invitation (To Jw)
...Come dance with me, I hear the band
Of birds and cricket playing
Quadrille, or mento, now take my hand
The earth on love is turning
Come lie with me, the grass is green
Too wet the golden sand...
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Categories:
quadrille, friendship, love, song-lyricdance, dance,
Form: Verse
Find Places For Meditation
...Find places for meditation,
a strawberry path leading
to mysterious backwoods;
hear the woodpeckers drill through bark...
how frightening they are at dusk!
Meet the jolly woodscutter
gatherin...
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Categories:
quadrille, adventure, faith, children, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Find Places For Meditation
...Find places for meditation,
a strawberry path leading
to mysterious backwoods...
hear the woodpeckers
drilling through bark,
how frightening they are at dusk!
Meet the jolly woodscutter
ga...
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Categories:
quadrille, adventure, faith, children, forgiveness,
Form: Quintain (English)
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