My very slim volume of poetry is available on either claireworks.com or this website. Elizabeth Taylor was born on February 27,1932 died March 23, 2011.
Ode for Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor was in my day the most beautiful woman in the world. I saw Elizabeth Taylor (in person up close) a year before she died and I am sad to say she was no longer gorgeous…She looked like a melted ice cream sundae. When I heard she had died I wrote this homage.
Here‘s to Elizabeth Taylor
Your beauty was like a wound
your eyes a forbidden color
the world knelt
to worship.
Champaign and caviar
Red carpets
And diamonds
strewn like roses.
Time was unkind
You becoming /
A travesty, a harridan
All things
Flesh
No matter
How perfect
Ending
Rust and bones.
Death has stilled you.
Now we can reinstate you
Returning you to your rightful place
an icon of impossible splendor.
We will remember you
as a goddess.
The altar is readied
your star is shining.