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The Dance

There are those who sit
at the edge of the dance,
watching the whirl
of the living

Hub and spoke
Spoken wheel

The dance lingers
in their hearts
Years beyond
the fiddlers last draw.

About This Poem

Last Few Words: Just a short piece of free verse that I've been tinkering with.

Style/Type: Free verse

Review Request Intensity: I appreciate moderate constructive criticism

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: Tasmania, AUS

Favorite Poets: Glen Richards, Thomas Hardy, Phillip Larkin, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Carol Ann Duffy , Ani DiFranco, Seamus Heaney, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Elliot

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Comments

mand

mand

11 years 6 months ago

Hi Vandiemenspeak

This one is thought provoking! What I got from it was Don't be an observer - get involved and live life or you will regret it in your old age. Wise advise! The title "if my interpretation is correct" sum's up the poem - Life is like a dance, we can be part of it or sit and be an observer!

Interesting to read and contemplate.

LOve Mand xxxx

vandiemenspeak

vandiemenspeak

11 years 6 months ago

Spot on Mand..

Pretty much what I was trying to achieve! Thanks and merry Christmas/holidays/whatever you're up to. The centrally located couple of lines were contrived that way, to convey the wheel in both the rotating sense, and the the 'wheel' perhaps still danced in certain places.

All the best :)
Chris.