The Kagura Dance Moves

                                                                                             Attribution: Mikomaid

Image: Kagura dancers

Source: Wikimedia Commons (here)

Slow and guarded but

given to sudden bursts of

movements to music

Arms raised  in slow dance

moves dressed in preponderance

of whites and flowing

graceful elegance

until the devil came by

with boisterous make

bean throwing to help

appease the devil within

a sketch at the end

Written for Chev’s CARPE DIEM Special #50 with Kikaku's 'Kagura Dance at Night'