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Martha: A Poem

Martha: A Poem

Robinson, Garrett Buhl

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1475013418
ISBN13: 9781475013412
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 24 2012
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.24 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
Martha is a dancer. She was dancing before she was born. She dances through her childhood. She dances through her career.

Dance is the perfect subject to explore the physical reality of our lives. Dance is an activity that excites the dynamics of involvement while minimizing disruptions. Typically, society advices individuals that disruptions can only be avoided through compromise, acquiescence, subjugation and abnegation. Dance demonstrates how life may be pursued to the vigorous extremes while maintaining harmony. There is no more perfect melding of robust exertion and intricate expression in human nature.

Through dance, strength is presented not through a capacity for destruction, but rather the ability to maintain a composure that can withstand the extremes of physical and creative expression. Dance demonstrates the ability to broaden the limits of liberated movement, not through reckless abandon, but through gracious balance, dedicated integrity and bold aspiration. Dance is more than the refinement of the human physique; dance is the refinement of the human character.

This poem is a lyrical narrative depicting an art that is not about life, but is life as this life is lived by a dancer.

III.iii.2

Upon the stage, Martha stands in her place

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