BISAYA ENGLISH: PROSE AND POEMS EVERY DAY

Vean’s dance is street smart                  

By JC Nigado                                                         

Vean’s dance is street smart                                 

On stage borne not out of                                     

Ballet, folk or jazz training;                                    

But from gut and gumption                                               

Of the young and willing                                       

To the tune of life.                                                   

                                                                                   

Vean’s dance is instinct born                               

Like her beauty out of nature,                              

Now invaded by trained hand                              

In the art of appearances --                                   

That enhance or ruin the one                              

Bestowed by rain, sound, air.                               

                                                                                   

Vean’s dance is smarter still                                 

With ballet, pop and jazz                                       

Swaying pirouettes of trumpet:

A challenge to wit and character                         

That seem to break on some                                 

Cold watchers in the rye.                                       

                                                                                   

Dance, Vean, dance!                                             

To the music of life you know

Mind not their inconfidence.

The theater of envy and desire

Is at work all day, cycling --

Recycling the fear of self-doubt.

After dancing,

Wednesday 24 August 2016

Tagurabong City, Philippines