A sonnet for Vera
\nby cricketjeff on January 7, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nI cannot read a word in Byelorusian,
\nUkrainian’s as opaque as steel to me
\nBut Vera’s let me join in the discussion
\nAbout the merits of their poetry.<\/p>\n
I first read her as Nature’s correspondent,
\nA list of Russian probes and satellites,
\nHer death has left me feeling quite despondent
\nThere won’t be any more of her delights.<\/p>\n
We met online when she was Clerihewing,
\nShe wrote about a Georgian Scientist,
\nI read it with impressed “I never knewing”
\nAnd realised how much of life I’d missed.<\/p>\n
A poet with the talent to bewitch,
\nThere’ll never be another Vera Rich<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nMaybe I should have used one of the East European sonnet forms she brought to
\nus monolingual English speakers but she loved a Shakespearean sonnet too.<\/p>\n
It would have been good if she and I were American, then I could have used
\nsomething like<\/p>\n
Who else has left a larger empty niche
\nThere’ll never be another Vera Rich<\/p>\n
as the couplet, but they don’t rhyme over here
\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n
It has been remarked that l2 is hard to scan, I am pronouncing it thus<\/p>\n
you-CRANE-yans AS o-PAKE as STEEL to ME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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