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A Music Box Dancer
( a nursery Sonnet )
An earthbound sentiment to what I’ve seen
With eyes & lips that paint me in a trance.
Cerebral balance floating in between,
This face that’s made of plaster, as I dance.
You twist the key so up on toes I spin,
My graceful arms raised high to catch the sun.
The silence tells of broken heart within,
That never shows the pain to anyone.
To turn in place on endlessly ad hoc,
I tell a secret only known to me.
In finding naught to envy would you mock
That I could never hear the melody.
For once be what an honest girl is like,
A plastic Cinders’ wish at stroke of night.
NaPo/GloPoWriMo 2018
An earthbound sentiment to what I’ve seen
With eyes & lips that paint me in a trance.
Cerebral balance floating in between,
This face that’s made of plaster, as I dance.
You twist the key so up on toes I spin,
My graceful arms raised high to catch the sun.
The silence tells of broken heart within,
That never shows the pain to anyone.
To turn in place on endlessly ad hoc,
I tell a secret only known to me.
In finding naught to envy would you mock
That I could never hear the melody.
For once be what an honest girl is like,
A plastic Cinders’ wish at stroke of night.
NaPo/GloPoWriMo 2018
Published 8th Apr 2018
| Edited 4th May 2019
Author's Note
My entry for Day 8 of this year’s April NaPoWriMo.
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8th Apr 2018 3:28pm
8th Apr 2018 5:02pm
Thank you Thomas, yes, I know it's different. This year's NaPo (and hand-held technology <3 ), is opening the upstairs window shutters of my mind WIDE open to possibilities at least once in a while.
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8th Apr 2018 5:15pm
This has a beautiful central image, done justice by perfect wording and rhyme that never seems forced. These lines are music, worth hearing any number of times. I'll just twist the knob again...
8th Apr 2018 6:37pm
Ahhhh, thank you, my friend, dear crowfly, how lovely of you, and yes... let us listen to it again.
8th Apr 2018 9:19pm
9th Apr 2018 9:54am
11th May 2019 5:37am
11th May 2019 6:08am
11th May 2019 6:12am
I'm kinda on a reading streak today. Reading a bit from everywhere. Sometimes you just feel the need to appreciate others too. It's like that.
11th May 2019 6:21am
Aah but of course, I do that often myself. And I’m honored, my friend, that you are spending some time reading some of mine. My humble thanks, Mahmudul.
11th May 2019 6:22am
