Loves A Ballet Dance Poem by Mark Heathcote

Loves a ballet dance
it's a slippery romance
its thunder and lightning
it's a feeling that leads to tribalism
it's Beauty & the Beast
west meets east.

Loves a ballet dance
it's a hard-fought stance
it's Margot Fonteyn,
meeting with elephantine
feet that can't keep a rhythm,
without a head-on collision.

Loves a ballet dance
and like 'Gay Paree' France
there are moments of beauty
that is if-you're-not-too, choosy
shall immortalize your appreciation
you're too short a life duration.

Loves a ballet dance
a reckless circumstance
sometimes with guile, we glide
at other times we tap-dance
in our hobnail boots,
we stick together even if it persecutes.