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Sweet, Dancing Fate

February 25, 2019
By elizabethwittenback BRONZE, Elizabethtown, Kentucky
elizabethwittenback BRONZE, Elizabethtown, Kentucky
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All the people crowded around
Because of the dancer
Centered in the streets
Dancing gracefully around the fleet
Everyone in awe of her movement
Flustered by her prancing over the pavement
Gracefully and delicately she flew
High above the sky of magnificent blue
In all the madness the crowded construed
Joining with her, they danced and as the wind blew
Knowing her ways may not be the norm
Lovingly, they let her fly them through the storm
Moving faster, and dancing high
Nimbly above the clouds, everyone flies
Or above the trees where they may be closer
Perhaps to the ground, or somewhere near home
Questioning, some decide to
Ride the wind back down to their humble town
Sanctioned off from the most boring world around
There they sat, on the corner of the street,
Under the rain fallen canopy
Vertically, the dancer still flew
While the rest of the crowd began to leave
Xenogenic, some would describe her
Yet she is derived from a human,
Zealously, she continued, dancing for all to see.


The author's comments:

The Abecedarian poem Sweet, Dancing Fate is a dramatic take on how people can change through the influence of others. Fate in this scenerio would be personified as the dancer in the streets, flattering everyone and inevitibly showing what their lives could be. We see her being compared to someone Xenogetic, or not derived from human. Which is yet another descriptor alluding to her being Fate. In the end, we see people being encapsulated by her, and returning back to their homes changed and ready for anything. 


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