The Dance

Do you feel like exploring more poetry? Go to www.poets.org or www.famouspoetsandpoems.com. These two sites often showcase modern American poets. Billy Collins and Rita Dove are on both these sites. Their words reveal a more contemporary world, more relevant than the works of Walt Whitman or Robert Frost. Most colleges post poetry by students, an excellent place to appreciate auditory paintings verses visual paintings.

The Dance

I drift,

the numbers don't stand still.

They move, they swirl

and dart about.

Formulations cease.

Minutes pass, movement stops

focus finds its mark.

I breathe to start,

the brush is poised, but the paint has dried.

The canvas is still blank.