The Ballet Dancer

By Bellezza

darkness sleeps within her heart

but its never phased when the curtains rise

the music plays and she performs

a plastered smile to match her marble eyes


she begins slowly, but never falters

her dance of streaking personified elegance

the audience watches with awe-struck vision

gazing upon her inexplicable finesse

the notes ring a pounding
resonation
portraying her desperate
motivation
causing her impending
pulsation
leading into her vibrant
trepidation

the flawless appearance is shattered when
her self-centered secrets are exposed on stage

but no one watching takes heed to notice
she smiles helplessly, until she breaks

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Copyright 2005 Jennifer Woods
Published on Monday, September 12, 2005.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: tenderly, secretly, this reminds me of those items i s'pose every girl ahd....those jewelry boxes that expose the proverbial tiny dancer...pirouetting to tinkling music.....always so delicate and slightly off.balance.....easily broken, easily stilled. . .. such sweet insecurity in a girl---it never leaves the woman she grows into. .. .

  • monalisamarie On Tuesday, March 7, 2006, monalisamarie (113)By person wrote:

    Heh I liked the concept behind this. Or my interpretation of it anyway. Last line drove it home perfectly.

  • A former member wrote: Very vivid....enjoyed the your use of words to desribe all of the associated emotions. Great job

  • Possesion On Tuesday, September 13, 2005, Possesion (137)By person wrote:

    it had a dancers grace about it.

  • Tracer On Tuesday, September 13, 2005, Tracer (100)By person wrote:

    As the piece was of a dancer, was the piece a dance itself; be it a dark dance, but the flow was choice, and I especially liked, "the notes ring a pounding resonation portraying her desperate motivation," which I believe set the whole poem into its own Scholar

  • Tracer On Tuesday, September 13, 2005, Tracer (100)By person wrote:

    spiral of emotion. Good show, Jenn. Scholar

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