Meeting Nette Onclaud, the Verse Siren-Queen
MEETING NETTE ONCLAUD, THE VERSE SIREN-QUEEN
Sprinkled with sparkling silver, your precious gilded lines, dear Nette,
Dazzle me with faceted polished gems from your jeweled coronet.
I can’t conceive how, here in this café with us having tea and sausages,
Your flawless flights of fancy form like diamond-engraved images.
From your rhyme royal fall pearls of moonlight’s beauty, and yet you spoke
Of hanging in cafes like this with painters and dancers and down-to-earth folk.
Your work is filled with honesty, sincerity, quicksilver wit, playfulness of spirit:
We can only wonder at your free siren soul that can shine and inspire it.
In you, I recognize the majesty of the poetry I hope to write. My knee
Bends to the sovereign quality of the poet I wish was me.
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*Written with great pleasure by Sydney Peck
for Michael J Falotico's contest "First Words Over Coffee"
Copyright © Sidney Beck | Year Posted 2011
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