Inspired by Daniel Burke’s recent poems and Maurice Ravel’s Boléro, blog member Estela Bourque offers her poem, “Bolero.”

BOLERO

The dancer whirls

In staccato rhythm

To the sounds on wood

Skirt swirling round

A union of sound movement

Against the chaotic confusion

Of broken shards

Reflected in a mirror

Of sparkling debris

Round and round

A symphony of souls

Herald the birth

Of something new

From different points of light

The forming of seeds

Responding to the call

The dancer twirls