how will she dance with only one shoe
all i can picture
is that tiny ballerina
in the music box
dancing
around and around and around
up on her toes
forever
on just one foot.
—
“dancing is the poetry of the foot.”
-john dryden-
Apr10
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I didn't have my glasses on.... 
That is the first thing I thought of too. The music box dancer in a permanent pirouette!
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great minds…
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I have heard that dancing is the poetry of the feet, and I certainly believe it!
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me too
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Maybe she’ll come look for her shoe! 💃
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I hope so
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👍🏼👍🏼😂
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance. – Eckhart Tolle
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Yes!
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After reading the poem, I thought of “Tiny Dancer”.
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Yes!
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Lovely little tiny dancers
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Yes-
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Unfortunately I never could get my feet to rhyme. Or keep the beat or keep the rhythm.
😦
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I be am a horrible dancer but I do have enthusiasm. I really envy people who can dance
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Now that would be taxing, Beth!
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Imagine-
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Ow all I can see is the musical box dancer!
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Sorry!)
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I love it! Nothing to be sorry for 🙂 🩰
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while i can see the musical box dancer i prefer to think of her dancing barefoot in the garden/grass and you just didn’t see the other shoe
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I like that so much better
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She will be standing at the sidelines of dance practice crying her little heart out. 😦
Best wishes, Pete.
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Awww
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The dedication of dancers has always amazed me.
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It is on another level
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Poetry has to start somewhere.
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And the foot is as good a place as any )
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just to say: Yesterday, on Easter Sunday, I talked to a young girl, hopping around in one sneaker. She told me that there was a strange odour and then she realised that her cat hat deposited a brown bundle in her shoe. So she took her sneaker off and put the offensive piece in her dad^s car….
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Ha!)
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My sister was the girly girl. (I was the tomboy.) She had one of those music boxes. They always remind me of her.
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❤️
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I bet a few tears were shed over the loss of this shoe.
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What a loss…her toe shoe…maybe she will find it, or get a new pair, but she’ll have to break them in again and dancers are one with their shoes.
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Love that quote
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It makes sense
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Awe. I lost a ballet slipper when I was in sixth grade and my mom said “You obviously don’t care about ballet class. You’re done!” When I went away to college, I signed up for ballet. I took class until I was 50 and the ballet class near my house dissolved.
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Whoa…are you my long lost sister? That sounds like my mom! 🤣
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It was so wrong! A ballet slipper fell out of my bag and I lost ballet class.
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Wow
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Ha!
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I had that music box. 🩷
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I think so many of us did
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I like that Dryden quote —
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it’s a good one –
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Oh, I love the quote!
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thanks!
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You’re welcome!
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I saw the ballet shoe.on the grass mI was a ballet dancer and a tap dsncer when I was young..Anita
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so you know how important it must have been to someone
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😍
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I hope this little ballerina finds her own music too.
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Yes-
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