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The aesthetic that is dance: lights, music, energy, colour, stretching to the heights of a discipline to

be shared  and appreciated, all of this goes into the buildup we appraise as the performance.

What of the players on stage? How many delicious fried meals did they have to refuse, How many hours of sleep did they abstain from to get the movements right to sync with their partners.

We the audience leave the hall in applause mode, but if you really ponder the performance in terms of its background efforts and  disciplines the words of Rilke echo thoughts: "For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.” 

Attended the matinee performance of  'metamorphosis takes flight' at NAPA (National Academy for the Performing Arts)yesterday afternoon, so response to today's challenge is inspired thus.

 

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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

― Voltaire

 

REVISIT TO READ

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 Prosery: Rainer Maria Rilke

challenge to include the line  from The First Elegy by  Rainer Maria Rilke -"For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.” in a short prose

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THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 403

 Happy Month of July

Lets dance in the month of July

You've heard about the Monday Blues 

well this is Monday WRites  (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea). 

 

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For every Monday this July the Word is 'DANCE' Link up with one of your  posts where the word 'dance' is present or the theme dance is presented

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[the 'rock' in today's photo is a painted stone i did about 5 years ago with my granddaughter, she is 10 now. She took her painted stone home. i kept mine 😊]

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just because its fun, he stacks rocks as a hobby

some people call him, rockman from lonely corner

 how cruel i think; is this twenty twenty three

or have we reversed;  to a time of backwardness

© gillena cox 2023

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THROUGH TIME AND SPACE

hungry rocks eat the gemstones; and time vapors thin

old days are lived on one side;   what's past now present

through rocks guarding the gateway; who then will return

can love transport through portals; rocks thin as magic

© gillena cox 2023

# [for this second one, the inspiration is from a Netflix series i viewed a while back titled The Outlander]

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MBT: Rocking the imayo

 [challenge : to write an imayo themed rock; 4 lines of 12 syllables with 7/5 portions]

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[image courtesy dVerse poetry pub]

 TWELVE: THIS AND THAT

When does a new year begin? at

Twelve or one minute past? Hat

Cat skiddle that.  

A tomato red and delicious, is

It fruit or vegetable? Her

Eyes wide open to a yummy salad. 

Once upon a time in a fairy tale

Twelve princesses. 

© gillena cox 2023

LIMERENCE

Thoughts personal until shared

Like a doughnot turned curve.

There is no whole in two halves,

Only sections of desire fed of sweet

Longing.

Her eyes, his lips;

The curve of her brow, his lips;

Morning dew, his lips;

Finally, whispers of the heart;

Silenced in a kiss.

© gillena cox 2023

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Happy dVerse: Twelfth Anniversary

[challenge: to write a quadrille including the word twelve in any of its forms]

Poetics: One Word

 [challenge : to choose from a list of words to use as the  title and write a poem;  i chose Limerence]

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 [from my archives; children's carnival along the Western Main Road St James]

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt,

Sing like there's nobody listening,

And live like it's heaven on earth.”

― William W. Purkey

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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

― Voltaire

 

REVISIT TO READ

 so i can dance
dance
tasty bit rhythm and dance

 dance for May 

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Mash Up

Mosaic Monday#38

Come Fly With Me

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THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 402

 Happy Month of July

Lets dance in the month of July

You've heard about the Monday Blues 

well this is Monday WRites  (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea). 

 

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For every Monday this July the Word is 'DANCE' Link up with one of your  posts where the word 'dance' is present or the theme dance is presented

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Cassava is a root vegetable. It is the underground part of the cassava shrub, which has the Latin name Manihot esculenta. Like potatoes and yams, it is a tuber crop. Cassava roots have a similar shape to sweet potatoes. People can also eat the leaves of the cassava plant... [note from the internet]

 

REVISIT TO READ

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Mosaic Monday#37

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THIS IS MONDAY WRITES 401

Hope You had  A Happy Month of June; Stay Creative

You've heard about the Monday Blues 

well this is Monday WRites  (musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance for eg the rite of afternoon tea). 

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 If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow ...Emile Zola... 

 Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree ...Joyce Meyer...

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Today's Word is 'UNDERGROUND' Link up with one of your a post where the word 'underground' is present or the theme Underground is prenented

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I have chosen for this OLN my poem 'Imagination' first posted in 2015. You can listen to a reading

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 REMEMBERING MELODIES

Bird song at dawn belongs to awakening,

Grey sky has a chance now to colour brag,

Then to silver, some pinks are showing;

How in the planet's name do those birds 

Remember melodies, dawn belongs to awakening;

Coolness of morning shadows,

Lend to a new day of enjoying;

Vanilla ice cream will savour dessert spoons 

Licked to childhood rememberings,

Awe belongs in  every sunset,

Gratitude at sunrise, dawn belongs to awakening.

REMEMBERING MELODIES © gillena cox 2023

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

What colour is hope?

challenge to think of three things that make you happy. Don’t overthink it. They don’t have to be the things that make you happiest, they don’t have to be the only things that make you happy, they don’t have to be particularly special. 

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How To Construct The Fold Poem here and here