Thursday, August 29, 2013

Dance Me to the Edge of the Moon



Dance Me to the Edge of the Moon



Calypso to the edge of the moon,
                    (Crickets' cryptic drumbeat tune)
Dance me to the edge of the moon.



Dance the rapid banging beat
                    (Thrust and bite of all belief)
Turn me to the banging beat.



Turn the climb into the dance 
                    (Darkened precipice of chance)
Make me see the climb as dance.



Calypso to the edge of the moon,
                     (Leverage the bite of doom)
And dance me to the edge of the moon.

8 comments:

  1. Wow, Karen, this is excellent! I am particularly drawn to the "crickets"' line, as we have persistent drummers of our own and I was thinking about writing a poem about them too.
    I love the use of parentheses in this.

    Brilliant!

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  2. I had crickets in a poem last week - great minds :)

    I love the rhymes in this - in fact I want to read it out loud (or put it to music - that would be appropriate!).

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  3. Love what you did with these words. You'd be the life of the party on a flight to the moon.

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  4. Dance me to the edge of the moon...love that. "Crickets' cryptic drumbeat tune" another one of the lines I love. Great creation from the word list!!

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  5. Loving the beat, the refraining verses are excellent:

    Calypso to the edge of the moon,
    Dance me to the edge of the moon.

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  6. what a great poem. love that first stanza. and the subject of crickets... you can't go wrong. hope all is well. have a great day~

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  7. Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars... Just had a night of full moon and this poem suits it perfectly. There is an edginess, a gloom, a menace under all that light and in your poem.

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