Poetry Friday: Celebrating National Dance Week

Let’s Dance!

Are you ready to dance?

Are you ready to groove?

Find a pose down low. 

Let's start to move!

Let’s rise like the sun

In the morning sky.

Let’s soar like a bird

Flying way up high.

Let’s spin like a top

Going round and round.

Let’s fall like the rain

'Til it hits the ground.

Let’s creep like a worm

Through the grass and mud.

Let’s bounce like a ball:

Thud, thud, thud, thud.

Let’s leap like a frog,

Jumping fast for fun.

Now freeze in a pose--

And our dance is done!

I'm in India right now (for a wedding next week), and I'm a bit jetlagged. This morning, as my husband kept sleeping beside me (apparently he is not as jetlagged as I am), I needed to find something to occupy my time. So what else than to write a poem!

So, in the early hours of the morning, as the sun was just rising, I wrote this short action rhyme in honor of National Poetry Month and National Dance Week (in the United States), which happen to be overlapping for the next couple of days. My hope is to get young children up and moving...maybe even inspire a few to create dances of their own this week. 

Today is an extra special day, though. It is also International Dance Day, so you can celebrate dance wherever you live. And, it is Poetry Friday! Tabatha Yeatts is hosting the celebration at The Opposite of Indifference. Hope you can join in!