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Tag Archives: Dance
Love Blind in Dance
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #57: Let Us Write (together) (posted by Magaly) “For today’s prompt, I’m sharing three of my blackout poems and inviting you to write new prose or poetry which uses one (or all … Continue reading
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Tagged blacked out poetry, Dance, flower, inspired by another poet, Love, monster
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Worshipping Flower
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub-Meeting The Bar: Personification and Imagery (posted by Grace) “Personification A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person. When inanimate objects, … Continue reading
Water Woes
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #468 Words: bend, gas, grass, books, dancing, meet, sight, Wednesday, flash, shift, fly, surprise Water-logged Wednesday bends blades of grass. Flash! In a weather shift, sight of zig-zag lightning flies across the sky. Pages … Continue reading
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Tagged cancellation, Dance, lightning, rain, Wordle, wrinkles
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won’t translate
Written for: The Twiglets #167 – “won’t translate” You cannot translate a dance, you can only interpret what you see. When my grandparents spoke Russian, no one translated. transformation difficult feat to perform butterfly leaves cocoon There once was a … Continue reading
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Tagged butterfly, Dance, dolly, Haiku, limerick, little girl, Micro-poetry, poor
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Ripping Years Away
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #446 Words: sing, lift, rip, old, smooth, blessings, floor, view, enough, panic, virus, twenty Sing and dance with me on this old wood floor the way you did when we were twenty. Lift me … Continue reading
two beats
Written for: Carpe Diem #1807 – Two Hearts Become One “Love is the ultimate emotion. I think we all agree on that. Love is positive energy and uplifts our hearts. The ultimate energy of love is … “two hearts become … Continue reading
Chasing The Urge
Written for: Sunday Whirl, Wordle #431 Words: beam, chase, bond, scream, once, puzzle, sit, found, lit, born, wish, dance This poem is a race, it chases the urge to sit still. This poem is wish-born, lit by a moonbeam. Once … Continue reading
Swirl of Freedom
Written for: Sunday Muse #71 From a raft she acts on a dream– dance in air feel red swirl of her skirt in the sea breeze. Freeze moment of time. http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/
Fred
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #256: Same Old Song and Dance “We ask you to write a “dance” poem. It could be about a specific type of dance, or just the art of dancing itself. And whether we’re dancing … Continue reading
Dance Performance
Written for: Poets United Midweek Motif~Dance “As I was thinking about this Dance motif some lines of Leonard Cohen sang out loud in my mind: “Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic ’til … Continue reading
