DANCING WITH TAMBOURINES
By Claire J. Baker, Pinole, California
Grand Prize Winner in the 2012 Dancing Poetry Contest and Festival
Tambourines live for the chance
to shake it up, tingle the air
perk fantasy & imagination
extend a million invitations
If you are coming
Come now
Carefree all the way
enhancing costumes
radiating gypsy rapture
tambourines jingle-jangle
sensuality, brashness
adventure
Tremble when held closer
circles colorful circles
After flirting & teasing
tambourines climax with a bang
anywhere, anytime they please
At ease with all positions
Dancers’ hands select
these rounded rascals hypnotize
with a show of their own
extend invitation
to the devil-may-care
delightfully seductive
world of gypsies
full of jazz & pizzazz
Tambourines live for the chance
to shake it up
Dancing with Tambourines!
