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Lori Grosser Rhoden
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0 posted 2015-10-10 02:54 PM



Dancin’

Never was one for learnin’ steps
because  thinkin’ about sync’n
with somethin’ besides the music
isn’t dancin’ to me
Oh, don’t think for a minute
that means my moves won’t rhyme
with anybody else’s.
I’m just sayin’
the beat feels like a ball
bouncin’ around inside of me.
Once it hits my shoulders,
heaven help my feet.
But it is the guitar
that slides my arms in the air
and sways me between each beat.
When that solo comes
and it begins to do that wail…
I can’t help but throw my head back.
I’m weak in the knees
as that hot, sultry sound resonates.
I get a sound inside me looking to get out.
From hips to fingertips, I feel it touching me.
Sometimes it hits so deep it bends my knees.
Now, that’s what I call dancin’.


LGR©10/10/15





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Ticklefingers
Senior Member
Posts 710
Louisiana
1 posted 2015-10-10 03:03 PM


Great, energetic moves in your poem Miss Lori.

The 'Super Slinky's bend and bow to you!

(There you go with that 'sultry' word again. )


88's to the bar

She told me "play one for your supper Danny and maybe you'll get breakfast".

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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Fair to middlin' of nowhere
2 posted 2015-10-10 03:13 PM


Yea, um...well, I'd kinda been looking for a word and that one seemed to work so well and I am a rather mischievous sort...~L

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
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South Louisiana
3 posted 2015-10-10 04:22 PM


"From hips to fingertips, I feel it touching me.
Sometimes it hits so deep it bends my knees.
Now, that’s what I call dancin’."

You got that right, Lori, it's a deep down surge that takes complete control of you.

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
4 posted 2015-10-10 05:44 PM


fine writing...james
secondhanddreampoet
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5 posted 2015-10-13 02:02 PM


v. well 'penned' indeed! (your poem 'dances' too!)
jwesley
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563
Spring, Texas
6 posted 2015-10-22 11:57 PM


Yeah, dancing is kinda like basketball for me . . .
when I do it, everybody laughs.  But I know the "feeling" your words espouse, and I know the syncopation of the soul,
and whether my feet move or not, knees and hips and arms and body do their thing or not...
my soul is always in it, and everyone knows.

And the laughter . . . I chose to believe it's with me,not against.

enjoyed.


j.

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