Poems:            Take the heart on a dance
Take the heart on a dance

Remember the days of chance
And go back to seventy-three's trance
Take the heart on a dance
Elevated senses
On the wind of first romance

When days could be hungry
And hard to understand
Latin master in a rage
At the ridicule you stage
Of Caesar's words on Celtic land

Going home to
A little cream envelope, the end of it
And all that your young spirit 
Cares for 
A beautiful red-haired girl
Will see you no more

Up from the house
And into the field 
Heavy with first love's yield
By the ivy-clad gate post
You are ready to moisten your fears 
With tears

But your mother has sent up your friend
And you talk of a relationship's end
Just like all the other
Brave teenage men

December  99

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