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Night of Aurora

Night of Aurora	

Dance of Life -
Night of Aurora before the midnight sun,
Before the polar threshold of the daystar,
As Aurora’s swirling spirals flicker
In winsome purple-green electric flashes,
Dappled spectral neon scarves 
From nighttide’s celestial dust,

Dance of barefoot soul bewitched -
Arrayed in fiery folds of scarlet-red 
Leaps from star to star 
When snow buntings chant
Artic serenades with her melody
As silence falls in silver solitude
Of flashing silent symphonies
Across philharmonic fantasies –

Dance of the artic
Beauty in diaphanous neon, 
Ephemeral bursts of celestial streamers
Surge from astral pavilions,
Splash in sheer waves of gossamer mauve,
When lavender prisms pirouette 
In charged rhapsodies over the fair isles
With sweeping pirouettes

Dance of the ancestors – 
Ethereal ribbon dance in cascading rainbows
To tell tidings of sonorous harmony
From those released past the limits of the sky
They wear kaleidoscopes of happy hues
While Aurora dances a tarantella to say
She rejoices too. 

11-17-22

Checked the Thesaurus for the spelling of “nighttide.” 

Twenty-nine lines of poetry
Contest:  Poetry Marathon - Mile 22
Sponsor: Mark Toney

Copyright © Sam Kauffman

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