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Lady In White
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0 posted 2001-06-19 10:40 AM




Shadow Dancing

shadow boxing
tap dancing
shadow dancing

slow romancing
in the mind

can only be done
if you're kind

kind of mind
one of a kind
kind of shadow dancing
mind the kind
of shadow dancing
done

step step to
step step fro
step side
side step
one of a kind
if you've the mind

in my mind
I find you kind
to shadow dance
with me
making a we
of us

you're not here
step step forth
step step back
just a shadow
a body you lack

the music plays
slow and low
you're sleeping
overhead
you've never understood
the dread
I have in
losing the dance
slow romance

slowed by chance?
circumstance?
happenstance?

just knowing that
it did
lifts the lid
on questions asked
but thoughts are masked
taken to task
can't relax

shadow dancing
kind in mind
moving slow
turn and twirl
thoughts to swirl
dip and curl
and bend
and wend away
my thoughts

chance was bought
with life of line
thought of mind
mind in kind
once

ten cents a dance
slow romance
sixty years ago
taking it slow
now shadow dancing
is the way to go
slow romance
take a chance
God if I could go back
to ten cents a dance
real romance
my kind of mind

shadow dancing
one more time



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Sudhir Iyer
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1 posted 2001-06-19 11:55 AM


wonderfully dancing....

regards to you,
sudhir

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2 posted 2001-06-19 05:43 PM


I don't know how I missed this the first time around.  Shame on me!
10 cents a (taxi) dance at the Roseland Ballroom in the 30's and 40's ... A great place to dance in the 50's and 60's ... now only a memory sparked by your verse ... and the History Channel

Alicethruglass
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3 posted 2001-06-19 06:03 PM


Kind of a catchy tune *s

~A~

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4 posted 2001-07-03 11:30 AM


Sudhir, my friend, thank you for coming in to read...

Yes, Interloper, shame on you....but glad you enjoyed the second go-around...

Alice, thank you....

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