Please won’t you frolic me?
Please be my whimsy?
My shimmy?
Please be my new BFF.
Pull me and balance me,
Stretch me and touch me.
Take me on rides
Where I never have been.
I want to play leap frog.
Please ring my rosey.
I’m standing outside
And I want to come in.
I just participated in “Phrasings”, a performance of poetry and dance. I was one of the improvisation poets: Dancers were given music they had not heard before and then three of us watched and wrote poems inspired by their dance. We then had seven minutes offstage to polish our poems before they were typed into a computer and projected on a big screen for the audience!!! So that’s my poem:
