Category: Dance
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Strange Voices on St Valentine’s Eve
Or Friday 13th, if you’re superstitious about such things. I was born on a 13th, so I’m OK with things like that. In the Mansion in my mind, Thomasina’s decking the halls and singing her current favourite song. If ever an ear-worm was ever needed, I’d have to say ‘Mickey’ by Toni Basil would most…
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Shadow’s Dance
Watch the shadows bob and weaveAs the candles’ flames sigh and breatheGlowing bright,Fading low,Suddenly, the flames, they grow…The flames: They dip, and drip, and bow, and stretchCasting shadows in all directionsThe shadows move as though connectedMoulding around the light projectedFrom the candles that are very still…The flame’s alive.And mesmerised,The shadowsDanceUpon its will.
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Dance of the Phoenix
With wings of fireFeathers of flameAnd head and tail of light The phoenixThe firebirdLifts off the ground, and upwards into flight It circlesIt soars It sizzles It roars It shrieks It weaves and dives It hovers It swoops It spins It loopsAnd it aims for the greatest heights The phoenixThe firebirdDances and…