Modern Dance Poems

These are modern English translations of love poems by Geoffrey Chaucer. These are poems of love, longing, passion and desire.

To Rosemounde: A Ballade
by Geoffrey Chaucer
translation...

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These are modern English translations of poems by the German poets  Ingeborg Bachmann, H. Distler and Johann Georg Jacobi.



“Song”
by Johann Georg Jacobi
translation by Michael...

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In the twilight of my mind, where shadows dance with sorrowful grace,
I ponder the ideal mind, the brain, a vampire in this modern space,
Sucking the...

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In the mystery of the ancient altar, where shadows dance in dim lights,
Rituals are symbolic acts, stories written in echoes and hopes,
They weave invisible threads...

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I look up at the clouds above me and I feel the weight of nature dancing around me and the colors keep changing, the mountains...

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Body movement shake
A dance craze in modern hype
Bizarre for adults....

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Run to the box office and pick up the musical score, run to the box office the patrons are flooding the floors; you need more...

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The dancers ranged from tiny tots
In tutus meant for twirls
To those performing hip hop moves
Designed for older girls.

There also were performances
In modern dance and jazz,
With...

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Life and Death in two separated clusters, Klimt draws conflicts.
The serenity of his cycle of life is bright in pure color, he depicts.
A modern dance...

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THE BEAT GOES ON

Types of music can expose a schism
Between classical and modern rock
Modern jazz and gentle ’50s swing
Generations divided by such a thing
And hymns,...

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Moulin Rouge

The greens and pinks magnetize to my eye
Like flowers abloom, in a field espied;
That overwhelms creation’s invention
With beauty of grandiose dimension
Shifting to the wind’s...

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In Ongata Rongai's club, a memory song weaves,
A tale of Newton Karish and daring thieves,
Late '90s, New Year's Eve, a lively show,
A sold-out crowd, in...

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I
a low buzz,
maybe a hum? under
my note.
I hear it—see it.
give up the piece
or keep it,
     keep it.

art with children, new, gray.
Blessed...

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To the modern dancer: It's your objective to be off the ground longer than being on it ... And make it look easy....

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