THE CAT AND THE MOON

 The cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top,
And the nearest kin of the moon,
The creeping cat, looked up.
Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,
For, wander and wail as he would,
The pure cold light in the sky
Troubled his animal blood.
Minnaloushe runs in the grass
Lifting his delicate feet.
Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
When two close kindred meet,
What better than call a dance?
Maybe the moon may learn,
Tired of that courtly fashion,
A new dance turn.
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
From moonlit place to place,
The sacred moon overhead
Has taken a new phase.
Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils
Will pass from change to change,
And that from round to crescent,
From crescent to round they range?
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes.

Dancer Crystal Michelle Fallin - “I Look for You in the Stars”

Only from the heart you can touch the sky and shine like the brightest star.

Crystal Michelle Fallin

Lyrical/Modern Dancer

Heart Light

I look for you in the stars

Wondering how you are

Are you looking on from afar?

How beautiful it must be where you are.

Your heart light always shined bright

Like the brightest star

So I know you’re twinkling in the stars

And everywhere we go

You’re guiding us with your light

within your heart.

PL Fallin Photography: Dance of Sorrow and Joy

PL Fallin Photography: Dance of Sorrow and Joy: Beloved Daughter Crystal Michelle Fallin June 19, 1984 - Newman, Georgia August 18, 2019 - The Valley, Anguilla  In Loving Memory   

National Daughter’s Day - ‘We Remember Them”

In Remembrance of our daughter Crystal 

'We Remember them'

At the rising sun and at its going down
We remember them.
At the blowing of the wind and in the
chill of winter; We remember them.
At the opening of the buds and in the
rebirth of spring; We remember them.
At the blueness of the skies and in the
warmth of summer; We remember them.
At the rustling of the leaves and in the
beauty of the autumn; We remember them.
At the beginning of the year and when it
ends; We remember them.
As long as we live, they too will live, for
they are now a part of us as 
We remember them.
When we are weary and in need of
strength; We remember them.

by Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Riemer

Crystal Michelle Fallin

Rankin Gardens & Atrium 

May 8, 2010 

Columbus, Georgia 

“ You Don’t Lose Someone Once”

 

 

YOU DON’T JUST LOSE SOMEONE ONCE

You lose them over and over, 

sometimes many times a day.

When the loss, momentarily forgotten,

creeps up, and attacks you from behind.

Fresh waves of grief as the realization hits home,

they are gone.

Again.

You don’t just lose someone once, 

you lose them every time you open your eyes to a new dawn,

and as you awaken, so does your memory, 

so does the jolting bolt of lightning that rips into your heart,

they are gone.

Again.

Losing someone is a journey, not a one-off.

There is no end to the loss,

there is only a learned skill 

on how to stay afloat,

when it washes over.

Be kind to those who are sailing this stormy sea, 

they have a journey ahead of them,

and a daily shock to the system each time they realize,

they are gone,

Again.

You don’t just lose someone once, 

you lose them every day, 

for a lifetime.

 

By Donna Ashworth

"She Walks in Beauty Like the Night"

 

Crystal Michelle Fallin, age 25

a bridesmaid at her sister Angela's wedding 

May 8, 2010

Columbus, Georgia 

She Walks in Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

Thus mellowed to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more one ray the less,

Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o'er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express,

How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And o that cheek, and o'er that brow,

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent!

By Lord Bryon 1814

Waltz of the Snowflakes

Crystal Michelle Fallin danced as a Demi-Soloist in Waltz of the Snowflakes in the St. Augustine Nutcracker Ballet at Flagler College Auditorium, December 1997. 

"From winter's breath she came

Twirling and dancing in the chilled air;

Through the forest and the fields

The wind whispers her name,

Brilliant and translucent...Crystal

The maiden of heaven's white veil."

(Excerpt from The Snow Maiden)

Waltz of the Snowflakes 

The Choreography

The Waltz includes sixteen dancers working in concert to present a unified dance and music experience. The dancers work together weaving about to create a huge rotating ice crystal on the forest floor. They split into groups of four making smaller snow crystals, and fly across the stage in solo leaps. Twirling and swirling and twisting and turning as the snowflakes fall to the earth or as the solo dancers move around the stage. In the last third of the Waltz, the dancers work solo and flash across the forest floor in a repetitive barrage of leaps. The dancers enter from a back-stage corner and move to the opposite front corner. Each dancer following another as the previous exits stage right or left. They leap or perform jetés midway through the stage. The dancers leap is free and flowing much as the wind tosses stray snowflakes from the top of a fence post piled high with newly fallen snow.

Native American Prayer

Crystal Michelle Fallin   June 19, 1984 - August 18, 2019

In Loving Memory

Native American Prayer

I give you this, one thought to keep.

I am with you till, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow,

I am the diamond glints on snow,

I am the sunlight on the ripened grain.

I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush,

I am the swift uplifting rush..

of quiet birds in circle flight.

I am the soft stars that 

shine at night.

Do not think of me as gone - 

I am with you still, 

in each new dawn.

Crystal at Marineland Beach, Florida collecting seashells on the beach.

Pixie Tail Crystal Belle

 Crystal Belle with a side pixie tail age 5 in Kindergarten.  A poem for Crystal Belle:

A LITTLE BIT OF SUNSHINE

She was a little bit of sunshine,
She had a smile to light your days,
She would steal your heart and 
keep it with her warm endearing ways,
She's my precious little daughter,
With a sweetness from above
Who filled our years with laughter
and our lives with lots of love.

By PL Fallin

The Snow Maiden

 

The Snow Maiden

The Snow cascaded, swirled and blew,

in the Magical Kingdom

Of the Land of Snow;

Amidst the snow flakes and fairies.

The Snow Maiden dances,

Twirling on pointed toes

From moonbeam to shadow;

Her silhouette we follow

From forest to meadow;

Snow and ice are her friends,

The coated white earth is her floor;

Center stage from heaven

The stars shine on her,

Seeking no other;

She is the Snow Maiden

Graceful and fair,

in her fairy white dress

With star light in her hair;

Delicate and graceful

From finger tip to toe,

She's eloquent to behold;

Her eyes sparkles like Crystals

Amidst the snow fairies and sprites

She waltzes in solace

With mystical delight;

From winter's breath she came

Twirling and dancing in the chilled air;

Through the forest and the fields

The wind whispers her name,

Brilliant and translucent...Crystal

The maiden of heaven's white veil.

By Peggy Fallin

Crystal was a Demi-Soloist in the Waltz of the Snowflakes

 Nutcracker Ballet  

Performed by the St. Augustine Premier Ballet Company