Ballet Dancer

A Poem

John O'Neill

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Photo by Gang Hao on Unsplash

Is there anything more sublime
Than watching a ballet dancer in her prime
The leaps and pirouettes
Power and grace on display
Music and movements in perfect sync
Surely a glimpse of what it must mean
To be touched by the divine

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John O'Neill

Retired human services executive, living in Massachusetts near Boston, trying to be a better human being each day than the day before.