“The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them” ―Margaret Atwood
Tchaikovsky
Ballet on canvas
Disarms bear
Be cautious of bears at all times, even when being mauled by a tiger ―Craig Benzine
Cannonade
Molotov cocktail
Overture
A man screaming is not a dancing bear ―Aime Cesaire
The fanfare
Nutcracker clamping
Shells crunching
All of the authoritative books on bears seem to agree on one thing: if you’re close enough to a bear to cause it to change its activity pattern, you’re too close, and in possible danger ―Dennis R. Blanchard
Peace breaking
The waltzing snowflakes
Cossack kicks
Science considers bears to be solitary animals. But while bears don’t live in established groups or obey rigid hierarchies as chimps and wolves do, they have amazingly complex social relationships ―Benjamin Kilham
Sugar plums
Charming toy soldiers
Beating swords
Aggression in bears can be and often is a stepping stone to friendship. Friendship and alliances frequently develop by repeated interactions, with initial aggression that lessens over time ―Benjamin Kilham
Awaken
Beauty’s sleeping dream
Waltzing prince
The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance ―Ernest Hemingway
The flip side
Waltz of the Flowers
Disarming
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world —Voltaire
The encore
To the end of war
Artists dance
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy ―Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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GODSLAUGH.ME 
Tchaikovsky was a wise man.
Takes one to know one. 🙂
Whythankyou.
I’ve gotta ask… how long does it take you guys to actually put one of these posts together? It seems like a ton of work, given the high quality!
-David
The clock obtains only if you work for wages. 🙂
“A happy man does not hear the clock strike.” –German Proverb
You did such a lovely job of braiding bears, with current events and dance. How do you make these creative leaps!?! I particularly liked your poem, “Peace breaking / The waltzing snowflakes / Cossack kicks” to be followed by the hopeful quote from Kilham about aggression in bears being a stepping stone to friendship. So hope that can happen, and soon.
Thank you, LuAnne, I think the “creative leaps” are made by the dancers in the pictures, and the metaphors in the poetry are “braided” by imagination. Amen to your hope for a prompt taming of a bellicose bear, maybe aided by Tchaikovsky and the Bolshoi, like prayer flags dancing in a beautiful mind. 🙂