Breathe the cooling air
Let your exhale dissipate
Among the many fair
Of skin and glittering face

Raise your hands high
Grab hold of cold white metal
Take the silk stretched wide
And throw it with all mettle

Smile to the colored blur
Listen for honors many claps
Point your feet and turn
For the beats that go tap tap

Set down your colored veil
And pluck the swords sharp tip
Transition the rainbow’s hail
To fearsome silver wondering flips

Toss and let the handle fly
Hold covered bruised hands out
Catch it with grin and smile sly
And go on with moves about

Watch your partners twirl
Sidestep the new one’s trip
And let your spirit whirl
In saber’s metal bliss

Set down with nice silence
And shoulder clear white gun
Sneer with shouting violence
Of cracking hardened fun

Throw fast and fiercely hard
Let your hands feel the pain
Each perfect catch a new green card
And points that leave no shame

Jump and hug your rifle tight
It delights the sight of them all
A reeling anger of delight
For each snap that can be recalled

Gently force it to the floor
And take another silk
And throw in wondering décor
To finish the show well built



Hurry and collect your friends
The music has now stopped
Though this season far from ends
You’ve laid the perfect plot.