your knees bend slightly as your skate blades touch the smooth ice <br />The air is cool and calm <br />the music makes it twice as nice <br />The ice is transluscent but shaded like the white on dice <br />your lungs and legs are pumping hard <br />as your blades carve and track your turn into the ice <br />You make a lap around the rink <br />on the turns you lean and crossover and slice <br />legs crossing over twice or thrice <br />wind in your face <br />people blur as through they're standing in place <br />There is no worry or malice or vice <br />You're throughts are somwhere else <br />as if every worry has been put on ice <br />you lose count of laps <br />and the sensation is quite nice <br />skating on smooth ice<br /><br />JAMES T. ADAIR<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/skating-on-smooth-ice/
