Gertrude, Dorothy, Mary, Claire, Alberta, Charlotte, Dorothy, Catherine, Emma, Ruth, Louise, Margaret, Ferral, Harriet, Sarah, Nude Florence, Margaret, Thelma, and Toots: Night-birds, fire-birds, rain-birds all, Trembling heart, hidden hands, and eyes to the wind, You show me the movements of light; You exchange a clear glance for the spring, The turn of your waist for the whorl of a flower, Boldness and danger for your shadowless flesh; You trade love for the thrills of a swordflash And welling laughter for the promise of dawn. Your dances are the frightening gulf of my dreams And I sink and my fall makes eternal my life, The space beneath your feet grows vast and vaster; Marvels, you dance upon the springs of the sky! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CONCERNING NECESSITY by HAYDEN CARRUTH TO A MOTH SEEN IN WINTER by ROBERT FROST SELF-ANALYSIS by DAVID IGNATOW AGING TOGETHER by CLARENCE MAJOR WITH BEST WISHES by DOROTHY PARKER |