Friday, December 12, 2008

CFS Dance


to the dancers

how can mere words express dance?
summarize an experience that is within more than four dimensions?

for space & time in dance are imbued
with feeling, thought, and physical virtuosity,
all within the dynamic of execution within a vision,
of the individual’s release of focus and effort
while in relationship to music, to the choreographer,
to the fellows sharing the dance,
to gravity itself,
to the exultation of a language I love to hear
but that is beyond what I can translate,

and beyond what my aging body can hope to even faintly echo,

my spirit, however, soars as it holds, shapes,
leaps with each dancer,
and within the dance itself,

the kid in me joys in the dance,
as does the wise one within
who gets the wisdom beyond their years
expressed in the students’ vision
and the power of its expression,

how wonderful it is to know the child,
the young person, and the adult,
each who can be within us all the time
and who can be released to express themselves
as the spirit can move us,
and the body can respond.

by Henry Walker
December 9, ‘08

2 comments:

Bill said...

Hey Henry,
It would be great if you included photographs with all of your poetry. It works, for me anyway.
Bill

Rebecca Ann said...

to the exultation of a language I love to hear
but that is beyond what I can translate,

That line is particularly evocative to me. Hear or see? Just a question, because their are "seen" languages as well as spoken. The second line their is wonderfully crafted, as well.