WHEN HEIDI DANCES

 

When you dance

dear Heidi,

the space you fill

 

glows with sparkling

effervescence.

 

A silence of sweet music

embraces your muscles

your swerving hips,

 

your soft hair shines like the fragrance of prayer,

as we reverent dervishes, your admiring servants,

gratefully listen.

 

Scintillas of spindrift grace this room

 

refresh all who witness

your awakened

earth-quaking beauty.

 

Yourself rambunctious,

yet fine as lace,

 

a strong form and eager face

so flowingly sumptuous!

 

An ocean wave born in love and truth,

you roll across unmapped seas

a calming breeze of coolness,

 

you turn you glisten with a schoolgirl’s

frisky ease, yes--your unmild beguiling

enchants and pleases!

 

Mischievous marvelous in your glee,

this freedom you make today makes

our day wholly.

 

A galaxy of spinning light, my carefree woman wildly

delighting us all, a beaded altar of precious colors--

 

Oh, how we relish your womanly loving motion.

Thank you for such moments of bliss, this joy-filled

rhythmic shaking.

 

We hear your whispers continue, see in this dance

of stillness your skin’s pure happiness,

 

our soulful sustenance.