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Teach me please

I have my ballet shoes

And a long silky dress

That is blue in color

Cos I love blue

Each time

I go to the dancing floor

I flip flop flip flop

But you 

My darling

You've watched me dance

To nothingness

While I am something

And we can be something

I mean

You could be my dancing partner

So

Please 

Teach me how to dance

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Cassandra Aisling

Author's Note

Thank you reading

Reviews

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

“You've watched me dance
To nothingness
While I am something
And we can be something”
Cassie your poem is so lyrical, pristine and sensitive. The tentative first approach toward love?friendship?described with halting words that belie the longing. Very human. Exquisitely written.

[Cassie]

Hi Annette, thank you for reading and for your very nice review, you should see how am smiling behind my black mask

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

And I am smiling back at you behind my blue one Cassie!:))

[barleygirl]

WOW! I love how tentative & naive & childlike this feels compared to your usual strong bold writing regarding social or political concerns. This feels like a child taking baby steps & that's what makes it so good . . . how you summon up that child in all of us, wanting to dance, being a little bit afraid, but still "all in" . . . also the title/final line is a surprising way to say "all in" . . . while also acknowledging how many of us fall in love (online) across country borders these days! This poem has so much more than meets the eye at first (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Cassie]

Thank you Margie

[Coyote Poetry]

Dancing together. The best way to befriend someone and enjoy life. We can dance anywhere. A wonderful poem shared Cassie. Ensure you find a good dance partner that can make you laugh and smile. Thank you dear friend for sharing the amazing poetry.
Coyote

[Cassie]

Yeahhh.Thankyou again

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome dear Cassie.

[Chris Shaw]

We all want a fine dance partner. Sounds as though you are more than willing to learn some new steps. Very nicely penned Cassie of the sming face.

Chris

[Cassie]

Yes I am very willing...

[Patricia Wedel]

Amazing poetry... ballet is so graceful
and sensual... blue silk like flowers that
cling to love as the music of a thousand notes
becomes a cloud of destiny. tenderly, Pat

[Cassie]

Thankyou again Patricia.

[T.S. Ulmus]

The final line grabbed me, made me dig in and have to reread it a few times. As a person not baptized into dancing culture, these were just pretty words, but the ultimate line made me think.

[Cassie]

Thank you TS for your wonderful review

[emmajoy]

Words both sad and ~ hopeful. Here you're eager ready, beautiful, waiting for your hand to be taken in whatever. At least it reads more like a two=step than an 'excuse me'. One step at a time, perhaps?.
Hope you're taking care, keep safe and settled, Cassie. Hugs.

[Cassie]

True, I appreciate you hun

[emmajoy]

And same from me of and to you, dear friend.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

There is s a sadness to this but also a hopeful plea as the protagonist keenly entreats someone they care about to teach them to dance. Interesting piece Cassie. I took lessons some time back and borrowed my friend's wife. Unfortunately being a business woman she could not resist leading lol!

[Cassie]

True, its so nice to have someone understand a poet

[jacob erin-cilberto]

in the past, my dancing partners have walked off the floor, leaving me in nothingness.
But then a new partner made me something again, we were both something again together.
and I think we teach each other to dance in rhythm and harmony.
Nicely done, Cassie.
j.

[Cassie]

Thank you Jacob