In Purple And Silver [rev.] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

The purple fairy took off her purple wings and
stashed her shimmering fabrics to make way
for translating - converting a picture of Arabic
script into a typed Word document

She has to know when beautiful M changes
into a budding bloom, how celestial H forms
in a heart or a bow, to learn and see why the
letter Y is always frowning in anger and that

The letter T is always happy and laughing with
her, why the D has a star on the head, why the
fairy F is wearing a quaint old bonnet, why the
Queen has two jewels in her crown - then she

Discovered letter C has three stars - easy to
explain this: acronym QC is quality checking,
only the Queen orders QC and the C is King;
cross-eyed and weary, eyes-unfocused

The fairy misses her purple wings, yet mental
flights thru' exciting domains of exotic cultures
give delight to the intellect and she berates the
little alien hanging from rafters in her head for

Sabotaging her attempts to become a scholar
of renown, albeit dressed in purple and silver -
listening to Chopin's nocturnes...