Ballet Lessons

Kinetic flexions

lissome wrists

deft ankles
vault
to
pirouette:

an elegance
once cumbersome

roughed up with stumbles
weeping
pain

refined by wrath
persistence
sweat

each iteration
richer yet

as gracelessness
becomes finesse

perfected motions.

"Effortless."




Ballet Lessons © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.

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35 words (prompt limit).  Elegance brevity challenge prompt - link: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2752750-A-poem-of-30-to-35-words-only-on-Elegance
Submitted: June 14, 2020









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