Ballet For Vowels
...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 ou...
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Categories:
releve, dance, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
The Dance of the Butterfly
...After the Occupational Therapist told me I’d never walk again (see my poem “What She Said”); I was in shock, but my being turned to my ballet days to recall when my legs were strong and I immediately...
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Categories:
releve, butterfly, christian, dance, faith,
Form: Free verse
Loverina
...The first time laying eyes on you
I would have never knew
You an angel whose radiance from their smile
Surrounding us, when we walked down the aisle,
Would spin my world in blissful charms.
Whos...
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Categories:
releve, longing, love, memory,
Form: Ballad
Bon Appetit
...Aperitifs and hard spirits,
With canapes and rarebits.
Delicious hors de ouvres,
Accompanied by tangy dips.
Tomato soup with crouton,
And an entree of mouton;
My strawberry red sorbet:
Makes w...
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Categories:
releve, food
Form: Epulaeryu
Muck Dance Ballet
...(French terms to know: arabesque (ar-a-besk) stand on one leg, other leg extended back
with knee straight, arms out; pirouette (peer-oo-et) a full turn of the body on the top of
the toe or the ball...
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Categories:
releve, cowboy-western, funny, nature, work,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
My Rome Maudlin No More
...my eyes have seen the Glory, the glory evermore
la de fa et for ever more, Bellet ever more cry no
more our amorous our love, we are not Rome but
ya yet you will stand for ever more, Stand ever mo...
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Categories:
releve, devotion, nostalgia, passion, sad,
Form: ABC