New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes

New Classic Poems
People and Places
She grunted and puffed across the whole stage,
All hundred and sixty five pounds.
At 5 foot 4 she wasn’t too tall,
Her pirouettes twirled round and round.
The people applauded in frantic rage,
Their yelling and screaming was loud –
They never had witnessed ballet like this,
Not one of them in that big crowd.
Pt 2
Like wildfires ravishing trees down south,
The word of Big Annie flew
Across the vast lands of the Great White North,
And her stature and fame simply grew.
So often you’d hear the call of the wolves
As they howled her name out loud –
It was “Annie, Big Annie,” in the still of the night
To the moon or a passing cloud.
Each inuksuk guarding ravines and draws
Heard the call and they passed it on;
Every hunter who traveled the barren lands
Knew Annie was Queen of the Dawn.
They came from the islands and far-flung bays,
They came from the ends of the world,
They came to witness how Annie danced –
How her ptarmigan feathers twirled.
One day when the ice still covered the bay
And the darkness was spread everywhere,
Still long before the sun would be back
To the land of the Arctic Hare,
Big Annie was closing the Bar and Grill
When a thought sauntered through her mind…
She decided to sell her famous place
And leave this town behind.
She placed a sign at the igloo door –
Which said that the place was “For Sale”.
In Pangnurtung the story spread –
You could say it was more like a wail…
From preacher man to the common man
The people were stunned – one and all!
They’d come to know ballet performed
By their very own Muktuk doll.
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