TONIA

She bursts upon an unsuspecting land

in a blaze of glory;

Dazzling, whirling, twirling, blinding

focused energy:

Beauty such as none have seen before,

To pierce the heart of even the most

stoic.

Ascending as an eagle climbs the sky

on wings of fire,

Bound not by any laws of man or nature:

O glorious freedom! The heavens are

her destiny;

The limits of her conquests are

self-drawn.

Bathed in misty, golden light,

her fire seems to melt the ice

Upon which blades of silver pure

draw figures of unearthly grace;

And the sound of susurrance, which

plays beneath the symphony

Defines the boundaries wherein

the watcher's heart does swell.

Yet, through this orchestrated fury,

a stately radiance brightly shines;

A grace not seen within this world

since time before she came to be;

When form and beauty were more loved

than bold and brazen power:

And this is that which makes her more

than others of her practiced art.

And now, goes forth to grace the world

with something gone these many years;

To soothe our planet's savage breast

with enchanting song and dance;

And give us that which some would say

is, in truth, a contradiction:

A Twenty-first Century Lady.

Larry Cone
kcblarry@aol.com

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