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A Leaf's Last Dance

Updated: Aug 7, 2019

By Sarah-Kate Simons, Year 8

an upturned face

suspended

in empty space

wind-borne feet

violating choreography

impulsively pirouetting

wingless

yet flying

losing momentum

in a dizzy curtsey

on a silent

red-patterned

stage

This poem first appeared in WriteOn magazine 2017-2018

© Sarah-Kate Simons and The School for Young Writers, 2018.


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