Ballerina Afro
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
Her great hair - rays of sunlight
Hitting wave of veil in the dead of night
Like a spotlight
On a ballerina, too too in flight
She was an angel
Her pink legs so very slight
Her spins were so tight
Perfect and iconically light
She saw everything right
Like a goddess with purest sight
Each joining secret full of might
A sequence of delight
And the joy she felt twas like exploding white.
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Written on June 19, 2022
Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on June 19, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 388 |
Words | 75 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
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