Still. {Triple Tetractys}

-Still.-

Still - -
She stands,
With her hands
Grasped onto mine.
The music starts as her feet dance to it,
With every clap her heart beats faster on,
As she looks out
Toward her
Mother,
In
The
Crowd of
People there
To watch her dance.
To the tune of a brand new song never
Heard before the night that she stood right there,
Dancing away
Her troubles.
Smiling,
Still.

© Jenna Elphick
October 7, 2006.

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Tetractys: is composed of 5 lines with a syllable count of 1,2,3,4,10. You can make double Tetractys by a syllable count of 1,2,3,4,10,10,4,3,2,1. or a triple by 1,2,3,4,10,10,4,3,2,1,1,2,3,4,10. and so on...

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--Meaning being a little girl who let go of her troubles through art of dance, and metaphorically she was dead from all the pain she had been put through. So although the crowd was clapping, she felt invisible and was able to dance.--