forget not king warning demonic
danger incremental gradual liberal
nor genocide joey precedent
nor dispensation donny cleansing
oligarchy authority false choice
g ford greater more effective evil
empire merrikka people subjects
rejects will well being ignore
dream fruition arriving never more
guard commons free speech farmed
private sector extract boiled ready frog
politic elect thesbian culture war
tonies grammies oscars divide conquer
chopping chomsky consent manufacture
wealth income earth labor rare birth
despair lament pay rent higher
proper response race both blatant
subtle kinder gentler totalitarian
all planet people planted excluded
possible power economic politic
remote hemmed chemical psycho
social escape routes addict dead ends
abundant narrate nook craney cross
every color four bid three finger all pro
nouns nun since seeing poking stabbing
lids bins laden all gore beat rhyme
tapdancing tintinabulation embedded
robot tune ruin seesaw sooth soul life
sleep endless bow dark nestle loud
selah
Categories:
tapdancing, anger, dark, earth, money,
Form: Free verse
on a sizzling august afternoon
the glitter on the water scintillates
tapdancing on a hot griddle
till a cool breeze reaches the shore
and loosely sways the braids
of an old weeping willow
as if to a sweet nostalgic rhythm
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Submitted on June 11, 2025 for contest YOUR CHOICE X sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - Honorable Mention
Categories:
tapdancing, beautiful, remember, summer, sun,
Form: Free verse
Peering back through misted glass.
You.
An intimately known stranger next to me.
Echo waves lap in and out of my mind...
Reality? Looped events pulsating.
Can't trust the cine film past.
Click. Thud. Tapdancing on my heart.
Staccato feelings.
Drop by drop I return to myself.
Phoenix.
Categories:
tapdancing, break up,
Form: Free verse
A nun skydiving in a thunderstorm
Frogs tapdancing on lily pads
written 25th March for Suzanne's Bantu contest
Categories:
tapdancing, games,
Form: I do not know?
When His wind excites the leaves
Light and shadow go dancing
When His wind on water weaves
Light flicks around - tapdancing
His wind dried up the Red Sea
To silence Pharaoh's hot air
Israel crossed over free
Their song - instead of despair
He breathed life into a child
Who danced before Him as king
The Davidic king compiled
Worship songs - for us to sing
His wind-driven chaff is wild
He scatters His enemies
His rebuke returns it - mild
His wind provides remedies
Breathe on me, Holy Spirit
For I must be born again
The singing - I can hear it
I am dancing from within
Categories:
tapdancing, bible, christian, dance, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Politicians seem to have an inborn propensity for inane chatter.
They'll WALTZ through a media event leaving many things unsaid,
And TWIST the truth 'til you're left with useless JIVE REELing in your head!
They are renowned for TAPDANCING around most any subject matter!
They'll SASHAY and do a TWOSTEP to obfuscate and to evade.
Politicos make asinine promises from CHARLESTON to Seattle,
And CHOREOGRAPH their DO-SI-DO with folks spewing their idle prattle!
They'll DANCE SWIRLing PIROUETTES never calling a spade a spade!
Some have GYRATED 'round the requirement to pay taxes for years!
Then RAVE, "Gee, my staff should've taken care of that" when the JIG is up!
Those scoundrels are all alike, drinking from the same old loving cup.
How they love to do the BUNNY HOP cozying up with their beloved peers!
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved
Placed No. 2 in Barbara Gorelick's "May I Have This Dance?" Contest - Feb 2011
Categories:
tapdancing, funny, political
Form: Enclosed Rhyme