The Dance Poem by Darwin Henry Beuning

The Dance

Rating: 4.5


We are all puppets on strings
Dancing a maddening dance

Laugh, Beuning, Laugh

A complex puppet with hundreds of strings
Controlling every move

Laugh, Beuning, Laugh

The puppet master is in control
From the moment of birth until we go

Laugh, Beuning, Laugh

The Dance
Monday, September 1, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: Life
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
I remember back in 1963, high school, Osakis, Minnesota. I was 16, Business Arithmetic class. The teacher had me stand and laugh for the class. It was a few minutes before the bell. When I stopped, he would repeat, 'Laugh, Beuning, Laugh'. I have had many a laugh these many years. It is better to laugh than cry.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Richard Wlodarski 26 March 2020

I'm not sure if I would have been able to laugh on command. And even at 16, I was already labelled a crusader (rebel with a cause) . Yes, it's better to laugh than cry! Voluntarily!

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Michael Walker 28 October 2019

The poem, to me, denies human free will to decide and act, because it has all been decided in advance for us. This philosophical question is not easy to decide, but you have done so.

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Castellenas John 26 March 2019

I enjoyed this poem and I liked the drive and the energy of the words.

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Pranab K Chakraborty 01 September 2014

Absolutely truth. Tragically sometimes rather many times we try to forget or the problem of communicating with the truth brings so many chaos to exist on the surface. Crisis complicated growing everyday.

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Darwin Henry Beuning

Darwin Henry Beuning

Melrose, Minnesota
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