Warrior Princess

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  She births stars from her fingertips

Dances with fire

Wraps herself in comet tails

Spinning the flames

As graceful and dangerous

as a tigress

Fierce

Fearless

Feminine

Wild as summer jasmine

She dances with fire

to moonlit music.

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Note: This poem was inspired by watching a performance of Weapons of Mass Distraction, the fire spinning group (all students!) at Reed College in Portland, OR where my daughter is now a freshman. After one of the women's performances, a woman sitting next to me shouted, "Look at that, you bimbo cheerleaders! These women are WARRIOR PRINCESSES!"

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