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Spanish dancer

As in the hand a sulphur-match burns white
 
before it flames, and giddily unfurls
 
its quivering tongues; - so, circling in the sight
 
of crowding watchers, hurried hot and bright
 
her rounded dance quivers in widening swirls.
 
 
And suddenly it is sheer flame aflare.
 
 
Tossing a glance the firl kindles her hair
 
and with more daring art whirls her attire
 
wholly, at once, into this furious fire,
 
from which her bare arms, each a startled snake,
 
stretch sinuously, rattling as they wake.
 
 
And then:  as if the fire were strangling stuff
 
she gathers it together - flights it off
 
imperiously, with a prouder mien, her eyes
 
watch:  there upon the ground, raging, it lies
 
and keeps on flaming and will not give place. -
 
Yet certain of her triumph, with a sweet
 
welcome now in her smile, she lifts her face
and stamps it out with little resolute feet.
 
 
 
Dance Poetry
A comprehensive anthology
Edited by Alkis Raftis
Copyright 2012

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