Sword Dancers

Steel reeling
storming beat

wheeling
arms and blades and feet

aligned and slicing
gleaming light

refined as silk
as fierce as fight

when drummers lunge
ten dancers slash

then startled watchers
feel the crash

of rhythm's
fearless symmetries

escaping blades
explosive knees

diagonals of dire
swings

endangering as metal
sings.




Sword Dancers © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.

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50 words (prompt limit).  Sword and Silk brevity challenge prompt - link:
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More about Sword Dances:
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Submitted: November 22, 2020









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