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:
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Submitted: June 14, 2020