People Waltz Poems

A Fantasy

There was I, forgotten in the attic.
Mannequin discarded, ready for demolition.
Cracks everywhere with some rags thrown on
Haphazardly over me like a scarecrow.
Suddenly all lights...

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Washboard Waltz

Is a washboard musical when scrubbing socks on its metal ribbons?
The woman in the basement was not aware of anything other
than the soap suds,...

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The manager waltzes to a song
The dance trend didn’t take long
People started to waltz
And so did his boss
To a song whose wordings was strong...

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Moving through the pulse and the flow
A timetable of fixed dilation
A given
And measured 
Ellipse
To the people it trips
As they ride the crest
Of the waves
Of emotions
Just...

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Today's Sounds

Music rolls off the banjo, bluegrass
Active cheery sound, gland it’s around,
Folk music in little town passed down by word of mouth;
Family remembers and other...

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My body is this tower
My bones are the iron beams
My eyes are the cameras on the walls
There are white lights in my seams 

My body...

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"I have a dream, a song to sing"
About an earth seen from up in space
Like an Agate marble swirling green
How much longer will that be...

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The waltz
 
In her eyes there was a darkness,
A secret held there for none to see.
She looked at me from lowered lashes,
My heart sped up...

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Mysteries have their hidden truths
Challenges have their approach
People have their flaws
Enemies have their weaknesses

But how do you stand up to fate?

What happens when fate decides
That...

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Now the wagons rolled out of Missouri,
Heading west on the Oregon Trail,
Through the blizzards and ice-covered mountains,
And the winds, and the rains, and the hail.

We...

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Dancing pairs in the hall of flairs;
      poignant paintings beneath the classy ceilings;
  shimmering chandeliers gently appear
  ...

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A waltz of death comforts my soul
The only thing I’ve ever known
A settled calm brushes my skin
I dance along, I smile within

My dying songs take...

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March 23, 1973

Thirty-two years ago, today, we said I do.
Now you have been in heaven for almost two.
As I do the anniversary waltz all by...

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