The Original Riverdance

 Prompt #3 from Robert Brewer @ Writer's Digest poem-a-day challenge

For today's prompt, pick a musical act or artist

and either make that the title of your poem

or incorporate into the title of your poem; then, write your poem.

Its splendor captures hearts and souls

In arrangements that spill

Through gullies, between hills and knolls

It runs its foaming drill

It thunders through the wilderness

And eddies into bays

Above its cascade, mists caress

Its roiling interplays

It performs without preference

As masterpieces grand

Roll without mortal audience

Through untamed timberland

A lyrist that commands respect

The lure of its appeal

As ageless as its dialect

Of silver, sage and teal

It serenades the fisherman

That navigates its stream

And sparkles like a sequin-fan

Where sunbeams waltz and gleam

It glides, as tame as nameless reeds

Idling along its shores

It clashes where two courses feed

Into one vein, it roars

…and frets and moans and froths and fumes

Until its ire is spent

To slide beneath the willow plumes

That strum its moody bent

Mingling of danger and delight

Of unbridled romance

Heeding a Maestro veiled from sight

Save in the river’s dance

It dips and dives, leaps, jives and falls

Liquid arpeggio

Of promenades and madrigals

That always steal the show  

© Janet Martin

LORD OF THE DANCE RIVERDANCE BY PANDAMIMIH

Isa.43:1-3

Now this is what the LORD says—

He who created you, O Jacob,

and He who formed you, O Israel:

“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;

I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

2When you pass through the waters,

I will be with you;

and when you go through the rivers,

they will not overwhelm you.

When you walk through the fire,

you will not be scorched;

the flames will not set you ablaze.

3For I am the LORD your God,

the Holy One of Israel, your Savior;...