Pretty demoiselles <br />In flowered summer dress <br />Adventurous young men <br />Shyly forward press <br />Inviting them to join the dance. <br /> <br />Elders looking on <br />Shake disapproving heads <br />As swaggering swain <br />Shows too romantic an aim <br />By asking her to dance again. <br /> <br />Having her own mind <br />For he's handsome, tall and fair <br />She lets him take her hand <br />Ignoring their dark glare <br />And joins him in another dance. <br /> <br />Such memories waltz through her head, <br />Whatever happened to that handsome boy <br />So clearly seen in her mind's eye? <br />Like her, grown old and gone to seed <br />That lovely lad with dancing feet.<br /><br />Margery Rehman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/evening-tea-dance-by-the-seine/
