RHYMING| HAIBUN POETRY

In Life’s Little Stumbles, You Keep Going

A Poem

cindee D Renee
Poetry Playground

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Photo by Kazuo ota on Unsplash

On the roar of performance day,

I caught butterflies along the way.

Kidnapped by the lights of the stage,

trapped like a lion in a cage.

No one knows how I stumbled,

Or how my brain slowly fumbled.

My ballerina twirl was all wrong,

It just wasn’t that twister strong.

I did it so much better before,

This time I won’t get an encore!

I’m being so hard on myself,

I can’t keep my internal criticism on the shelf.

Mom said I did just fine,

“You”ll do even better next time.”

The Tutu girls

Like little ducks in a row

Twirling toward Heaven

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