Narrative Poetry Assignment

Dancing On Stage

I am on the stage
Standing in my first position
I feel nerveous
As I take a deep breath

I see the audience
Watching,
My every move
My every step

The music starts
I feel it
Throughout my entire body
Through my veins

I start the dance
The dance that I
Have danced so many times before
And has taken months to perfect

I am flying over the stage
Like a bird soaring through the sky
Forgetting that the audience is even there
Just dancing

Now,
I am not dancing with just my feet
But I am dancing with my heart
My whole soul goes into it

Every turn with attitude
And grace
Delicate as a flower,
I’m a snowflake as I daintily make my way around the stage

I get into the song
Feeling the lyrics pour off of the singer’s lips
I am now part of the melody
Feeling the same happiness the singer is feeling

I am loving everything that is going on right now
Every movement that I am making
Every gran-chite, every arebesque
Every step

But the music is coming to an end
I go into the pose
And take a deep breath,
For I have just had the most wonderful moment

The whole crowd cheers
And I feel proud of myself
For not only have I made no errors,
But I found myself in the movement

The curtain closes
And I realize
That dance is how I live
And I love the way that I live


My poem shows a story of how I am dancing on stage in front of an audience and the way that it feels. It shows how much that I love dance and how I get into the dance enough to lose myself in it. Dance is my whole life, and that is what I am trying to say by writing this poem.