Dancing Dreams (*Ekphrastic Poem by Maddie)

*Ekphrasis:  Using one medium of art to describe another form of art.  

Ex: a poem about a painting, a photograph inspired by a film, etc...

Inspired by the painting, "Moth Dance" by Maggie Taylor.

Dancing Dreams

When light has ceased, and the crescent glows,

an eight year old girl slips into her square backyard,

wearing her sister’s worn, gray tights

and pink ratty ballet slippers,

a faded, blue, stained blouse

tucked in at the waist of her black shorts

with a brown and yellow striped hem.

Two golden feathers

she discovered while twirling 
along the barricade of trees

sprout from her short brown hair, like rabbit ears.

Wearing her mother’s 
allaying cold eye mask

taken from the freezer,

she stands upon a rusted blue tin

while dancing around with butterflies

only night can see.

Glowing against the starless sky,

she dances,

with her fluttering dreams

of a ballet artist.

Bounding and gliding

through musty air.

Posing against the purple sky,

as airy luminescent wings flit around,

enhancing her woven trance.