For R Tsambounieri Talarantas
A Long Rhymed Acrostic
Rigópoula is only her first name
I do not recall one more noteworthy
Giving me some pause as to whom to blame
Over such a beautiful praiseworthy
Personage as this stunning king’s daughter
Opening every heart on Medium
Undulating like a nymph on water
Living life like a cypripedium
And turning every mind into totter
...
To Be or Not to Be seems meaningless
Since she has graced us with her written works
Abbreviating her first name to less
Meaning when it only added fireworks
Being an Eleonora’s falcon’s
Overseer escalates her mystique
Undermining my goddess in Athens
Nevertheless being completely Greek
Inside every woman lies a tigress
Enveloped in years of clawless guidelines
Rigópoula transcends things so mindless
Inviting to a world with special lines
...
Towards any light there is some darkness
Anterior to each life form before
Luck of some sort brings them into starkness
As they begin to understand the score
Rigópoula may have skipped that juncture
Arriving all light like a Greek goddess
Noting all life on paper in pitch-blue
Traversing every presented puncture
Ageless like marble at times apodous
Standing taller than Olympus in view
...
Dedicated to R Tsambounieri Talarantas, obviously, as a thank you, I think, or perhaps just to show my appreciation of her storytelling. Luckily, her name is not any longer ((giggles)).
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Patrick M. Ohana
A medical writer who reads and writes fiction and some nonfiction, although the latter may appear at times like the former. Most of my pieces (over 2,200) are or will be available on Shakespeare's Shoes.
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