The Strasbourg Dancing Sickness
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Is dance a metaphor for sex?
You’d think so if you knew my ex
(at least the barflies all believe
she’s hoarding something up her sleeve).
But what makes people want to dance?
An aural frenzy? ...
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Categories:
vitus, dance,
Form: Couplet
Fretfully Aching To Feel Fit As a Fiddle
...Fretfully aching to feel fit as a fiddle
After experiencing a severe,
albeit violent near lethal bout
of irritable bowel syndrome
(yesterday night August 30th, 2023)
triggered courtesy dulcola...
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Categories:
vitus, abuse, angst, anxiety, dad,
Form: Rhyme
The Dancing Plague of 1518: Collaboration With Dilly Dally
...The Dancing Plague of 1518: Collaboration with Dilly Dally
A plague cursed, until death they dance
Until forever lasts this plight
Moving hypnotic deep in trance
Onlookers revel at the sight
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Categories:
vitus, history, loss,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Tremblors
...Tremblors
By Sy Roth
They could feel it
Creeping beneath their feet,
Messaging their sole
Sending tremblors
Up into their thigh
Had to put a stop to its progress
Fearful that ecstasy migh...
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Categories:
vitus, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Godstarter
...GODSTARTER
OKECHUKWU CHIDOLUO VITUS
WWW.GODSTARTER.ORG.NG
it is a good thingto start with God
All the time start with Him, start
His love for us is endurance
I wake up daily to see this man
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Categories:
vitus, inspirational love, integrity, international,
Form: Pastoral
As Usual She Did Not Take Part
...I’ll never forget what’s her name
A PE teacher and ogre she became
For I was such a sickly child
it really made this ogre wild
Held in my hand a medical certificate
exempted from all things phy...
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Categories:
vitus, bullying, child, health,
Form: Rhyme
Oh Dear I Do Feel Poorly
...Oh dear I do feel poorly
oh dear I do feel weird
My chest it is a wheezing
I’ve infection in my ears
I cannot hear a blooming thing
Oh dear I do feel quite done in
My Parkinson’s leg is sh...
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Categories:
vitus, encouraging, humor, pain, recovery
Form: Rhyme
Star Gazer
...Beneath the dam St. Vitus swam
Till he settled upon a bar
Where heaven's light reflected bright
In eyes fixed upon a star
No move he made, or mind he paid
When minnows gently kissed
Good night to him...
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Categories:
vitus, humor, imagery, satire, universe,
Form: Rhyme
St. Vitus Dance
...The staccato stammering of bass guitars
punctuated the flash of strobe lights.
Limitless vistas of black and gray;
smothering the crowd in ghoulish poses.
Framed, as if frozen, in a glow of acid ...
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Categories:
vitus, allegory, angst, art, confusion,
Form: Free verse