Know why I think this way? Watch the tall grass sway.
Have you noticed leaves, gaily responding to the breeze;
spied robin's "bob and run," searching for wiggle worm,
or dolphin's graceful glide, with his companion beside?

Trace a monarch's pirouette, before it comes to rest
on a dandelion's fluff, still clinging to its ruff.
Even stars of the night shimmy and bounce in my sight;
there's no earthly reason why, in abandon, should not I

throw caution to the wind, cut myself loose, twirl and spin,
raise my arms in ardent praise, for glorious dance-filled days!

Faye Adams

Mildred W. McKinney Award
Poets' Roundtable of Arkansas
National Poetry Day Award
October 2004

Published--SouthLit.com--August 2006

Published in elizaPress
Eclectic Anthology Series, No. 5,
FREEDOM,
August 2007

Published in Divine Whine--September 2007