Searching for the key
Subtitle: poems
By: by Marguerite B. Palmer.
Publisher: M.B. Palmer
Published: 1999
Place of publication: [Arkansas?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 41
First sentence: Pale lady backed against the tawny set / My golden ring encircles, you appear / As ivory on maple sugar; yet / A hint of liveliness precludes the fear / That you are candy-sweet and little more. / One curl escapes the disciplined design / In sculptured waves; your eyes suggest a store / Of garnered wisdom cleverer than mine.////Are you a captured likeness, real as life, / Memorialized in an admirer's art - / A sweetheart, or perhaps a cherished wife / Whose parted lips had framed a lost retort? / Or did a stranger, many years ago, / In lieu of dreaming, carve a cameo?
Description: Sonnet titled "Cameo"
Notes: I keep a personally typewritten copy of this poem in a small wooden box in which I keep a cameo ring given to me by my parents in 1961 on the occasion of my sixteenth birthday.  I have no idea about where I originally saw it, but I was obviously impressed enough to copy it.  mcmartin@execulink.com
Table of contents: title: "Cameo"