Short Plie Poems

I once knew a girl from Sheboygan
She danced with a Wisconsin clan
She tried a deep plie
On a lovely June day
And promptly said, “I don't think I can!”

written June 15, 2021...

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This old mind works in very strange ways
Conjures up images of me doing the plié
So graceful and sweet
So light on my feet
An overweight Baryshnikov, not as graceful some say...

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This old mind works in very strange ways
Conjures up images of me doing a plié
So graceful and sweet
So light on my feet
An overweight Baryshnikov, not as graceful some say


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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Rain polka dots
the limestone church
in a spray of champagne
as throngs of ballet slipper camellias
plie like marionettes 
with crystal strings 
to heavy drops 
on an emerald lawn
of rice tosses.

Rows of braided Lavender
sway to Spring's accordion gusts
just as far-off fields of shamrock
jettison rose poppies 
into glistening air.

7/18/18...

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The tale Tchaikovsky wove that day
Lives on and on upon a stage
Spun by  pirouettes ...and plie's
An epic story of love conveyed
Through the beauty of  ballet
 
Prince Siegfried and his Queen Odette
Who gave their lives without regret
To live forever bound together
As beautiful birds of a feather

As two swans upon a lake



Author:  Elaine C. George 

Authors note:  Plie' is  a french word 
pronounced Plee ay...

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I know the five positions
(In ballet – don’t get all hot!)
Plus plie and pirouette
But all the rest I plum forgot.

I didn’t have a tutu
But a leotard? Perhaps.
My memory is dimming
And I’m left with just the scraps.

Most likely, I attended
Very briefly, very young,
So a few balletic moves
The only knowledge that has clung.

Was there really a Miss Ricky?
Guess there’s no way I could know
For my ballerina days were over
Many years ago....

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