Former dancer returns to the stage after care home wish

Former dancer returns to the stage after care home wish

A care home resident performed ballet at the prestigious Royal Ballet with young ballerinas.

A 92-yr-old former ballet dancer with dementia wrote a poem that seems to defy her disease

Humans have been writing poetry for thousands of years, communicating feelings and ideas in beautiful, powerful ways that prose just can't quite reach. Poetry can be hard to define, but you know it when you see it—or rather, when you feel it.Emily Dickinson once wrote, “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” A poem hits you somewhere—your brain, your heart, your gut. And one poem that packs an incre…