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Created on: March 16, 2010
Does our journey seem,
As if we are,
Naïve students in a ballet class of life?
Constantly seeking to balance
Emotions and logic, while stretching our minds.
Returning and turning through each day.
Stepping aside to make a way
Only for the music to play.
Forever breathing.
Tenaciously grasping for the bar
Hanging on the wall of our
Ebullition, to keep us from falling.
Lifting our spirits,
In time.
Vignettes of memories,
Inside museums of flesh and blood.
Notice as the curtain falls,
Giving applause for what some dancers think is only a rehearsal.
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Ballet Dancer
Across the bar she lifts
her leg, straight and stiff
as a frozen tree branch.
In the dance studio
Does our journey seem,
As if we are,
Naïve students in a ballet class of life?
Constantly seeking to balance
Emotions and
She flitted out onto the stage.
Her feather costume pearly sage.
Her steps were delicate and light.
Much like an eagle,
“The Vernal Dancer”
A fair haired youth preps for her performance
Wearing a gown of flowers about to bloom
She
Tell me grandmother if you had the chance
Would you have been a ballerina and learned to dance
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