Carnival!
Sunday, 28 February 2010
Young Dancer
Epicurean beauty,
Delicate, fragile,
Ephemeral beauty,
You are perfectly molded, soft mannequin,
Feeling the shape of ecstasy
Translating through the alchemy of music
The heavy percussive invitation into ripples of
Human flesh,
Expressing the joyous contagion of movement,
Recounting the urgent tyranny of youth
Today I spend my beauty
Tomorrow?
Who cares?
◊
Old Dancer
Venerable, elegant, durable,
Ancient but unbowed,
Slight and rigid,
Your actions, though frugal
Present a generous statement of your love of the dance
How many more times will you feel the life force?
How many more times will you dance
Your defiance of time,
Of age,
Of decay,
Of death?
Epicurean beauty,
Delicate, fragile,
Ephemeral beauty,
You are perfectly molded, soft mannequin,
Feeling the shape of ecstasy
Translating through the alchemy of music
The heavy percussive invitation into ripples of
Human flesh,
Expressing the joyous contagion of movement,
Recounting the urgent tyranny of youth
Today I spend my beauty
Tomorrow?
Who cares?
◊
Old Dancer
Venerable, elegant, durable,
Ancient but unbowed,
Slight and rigid,
Your actions, though frugal
Present a generous statement of your love of the dance
How many more times will you feel the life force?
How many more times will you dance
Your defiance of time,
Of age,
Of decay,
Of death?