poetry in motion

poetry in motion

Something that is very elegant, graceful, and/or beautiful to observe, especially dance or the performing arts. The ballet was sublime to watch, truly poetry in motion.
See also: motion
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • ridiculous
  • ridiculous to the sublime, from the
  • sublime
  • from the ridiculous to the sublime
  • swellelegant
  • (as) graceful as a swan
  • graceful
  • graceful as a swan
  • swan
  • swellegant
References in periodicals archive
Hoop Queens captures poetry in motion as it celebrates the stars of women's basketball.
And we also had Poetry in Motion, with poetry on the buses.
I'M WRITING TO CONGRATULATE LATIN TRADE for finally paying tribute to environmental issues in your October 1999 article "Poetry in Motion." The article does a great job of describing how one person, Homero Aridjis in this case, can have such a significant impact on environmental issues, preserving habitats for endangered Monarch butterflies, gray whales, sea turtles, and other endangered species in Mexico.
So far, the symptoms of this particular National Month have been confined to certain bookstore windows, some television interviews and talk-show panels, various personal appearances, and chiefly--in a manifestation I find particularly noisome--to certain ragged bits of verse posted in the venues of mass transportation and mischievously entitled "Poetry in Motion." I understand that the institution of Poetry in Motion preceded the institution of National Poetry Month by a considerable interval, and I am convinced that it is a far less drastic, less deleterious development than the National Month itself, which I have no hesitation in calling the worst thing to have happened to poetry since the advent of the camera and the internal combustion engine, two inventions that W.
But a seat in front of the computer is a great venue to take in Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann's Poetry In Motion, a documentary featuring Beat legends, younger punk upstarts and other spoken word artists, or Comic Book Confidential, a comprehensive (albeit with a counterculture bent) look at comic books, their creators and even their detractors.
Entitled "2001 Dance Odyssey, A Journey Through Poetry in Motion," the event was hosted by Sandra Foster-King, artistic director of a San Diego dance troupe called Foster-King Dance Collection.
"When you've two fighters evenly matched it's poetry, poetry in motion."
While Monnier explored a poetic universe and Marin created poetry in motion, Bernardo Montet broke down the clarity of speech in his premiere, Isse Timosse.
PETER Ebdon's racehorse Poetry in Motion may not have lived up to its name yesterday but the filly's owner gave a thoroughbred perform-ance at the Benson and Hedges Irish Masters in County Kildare.