The Ballet Life
*** THE BALLET LIFE ***
Compounding,
Ballet grows within
Deeply sculpting over the lengths
Of muscles, nerves and arteries,
With the heart and mind, so
The dancer’s developed love
For ballet never dies
Nor ever weakens —
Those edifying arms and legs
Flowing streams of beauty
That lithely unite to
Lift music
To sublime dimensions
In combinations of elegance
For the eyes
For sights
Well beyond mere envisioning
Or imagined choreographies
Of daydreams —
Like picturing
Swaying leaves on
Summertime’s dancing trees…But
There is much more.
Ballet displays the possibilities
Of striving for higher goals;
Of ever working toward the heights
Of expression and agility’s perfection
In motions
In rythms
In physical, lyrical grace
Joined to creation
By committment — devotion —
Breathing into music’s scores
Yearning
To become essence, and excellence,
Accepting the never-leaving,
No ending
Spirit of ballet,
Which stays once it’s melded within
And
Magnifying,
Never dies…
(Dedicated nto all those who have held the thought, “I will dance til I die.”)
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(c) sally young eslinger 2/4-5/23
Thanks be to God…
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