interpretive dance

toes touch

            in whispers windswept

 

(and my heart wonders)

 

fleeting feet -

            brush strokes broad,

            impossibly free

            of weight

 

and the hitch in my chest

tells me:

you are alive

 

it’s too much -

            balanced on one leg,

            still so sure

 

this back, arched

these fingers, grasping -

            hoping to find air

            the purchase of an impassioned whisper,

            words strong enough

 

to hold; steady,

breathe steady

 

some words surface,

            but these days

they mostly dance

                        away

 

so i return,

spun around -

            back to where the whispers

            never had to be        

            enough

 

and my heart yet wonders

Reviews

[Horizon K.]

Oh there is a lot to interpret in this dance, as it is a dance, a romance, the potential of love felt in these whispers and skin brushes... Makes me think of delicate crushes and how we want to move ever so carefully... To keep this vibrancy balanced and alive... I love the word Whisper, btw... A beautiful poem CM...

[Robbie~xoxo~]

It's an intriguing dance to balance...and breathing steady will help get your words back...I'm sure of it...
This is a quiet whisper that echos loud and clear...

Beautifully layered.... so lovely to read your words once again...xx

[ChemicalMadness]

Thank you! Good to be back(ish) ;)

[K. Louis]

your moves, they are refined. your words, trust incessantly the breath is steady. so good to see you surface; if only for moments at a time.

[Ed Hart]

this is a deep longing for the whispers, for the continuous...i'm sure there are many dancers who would appreciate your choreography...great work, from architecture to ryhthm...deeply moving

[jacob erin-cilberto]

a beautiful dance with words...and it is so artistic...that dance...

and interpretive..and we all dance differently to the same tune.

i love this poem...reminds me of my second ex..a dancer..wonderful dancer---

she used to interpret my poems..not in dance but in words..but her words danced with me.