Yahtzee: My Poem: The Mystery of the Blue Train: Arrogant: Gen

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: Arrogant
Fandom: The Mystery of Blue Train - Agatha Christie
Poetic form: Italian sonnet
Number of lines: 14
Prompt: arrogant
Summary: a portrait of Ruth Kettering. POV Katherine Grey.

impressions, fleeting, first, we sit, train-bound,
and opposite, her wealth’s apparent, troubles, too,
that powdered face, accustomed to its due,
its way, those curls, just shy of being crowned,
the jaw which sets sharply, not too profound
her tale: a foolish lovers’ rendezvous,
a husband, doubtless rotten, through and through,
she’s hard, but even hard can go to ground

dead! her ego blindingly dangerous
in hindsight and then-sight, her ruby need,
first class greed, to have all and all at hand,
firm features battered, more the stranger, us,
in the adjoining compartment, misdeed
poor thing, wrong, robbed and crossed, and left unmanned!

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Very clever description - no tears shed for her!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! I agree with you. No tears shed. I just finished listening to the Blue Train today. She took the jewels with her, employed people she hadn't vetted well enough, didn't want a divorce but still wanted her lover, ignored her father despite the jewels and the decent advice he gave her, the list goes on and on, stupid and willful.