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:
https://allpoetry.com/contest/2765833-Swords--muscle-and-silk
More about Sword Dances:
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Submitted: November 22, 2020