Dance With Me

Dance with me

Hear that jazz play

We will be

redeemed in the sway

Let the others make way

I deem this night ours

These few hours

In your affection

Do not be remiss

I long for the perfection

of your kiss

Let the others see our bliss

Don't miss the chance

Hold me and dance.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Get Listed for Feb.: Absent
and Play It Again Toads, Rhyme Royal

Life

The butterfly is never born with wings

She starts upon the earth and only crawls

But to that form she knows she cannot cling

For holding on means transformation stalls

The courage to allow yourself to fall

So freely that you fear that you may die

Becomes the very thing that lets you fly.

Another Rhyme Royal for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, FB Fridy, Rhyme Royal and BT Benda

She Rides

She heard the hoof beats and she thought of stripes

Imagination conjured up the rare

For all her life she was one of those types

Accomplished what the others did not dare

So with proud peacock flumes tucked in her hair

She rides a zebra through the azure night

She knows that life is more than black and white.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, FB Fridays, Rhyme Royal and WT Benda

Nursery Rhyme Royal

When Goldilocks awoke she saw the bear

and started to get up to run away

but saw upon Bear's face such raw despair

"I promise not to bite you if you'll stay.

I've never had a friend to come and play."

So Goldie and the Bear stayed up all night

with movies, popcorn, pizza til the light.

submitted for We Write Poems, Photo, Girl with Bed and Bear

and dVerse Poets Pub, Form For All, Rhyme Royal