Femme Fatale

Aquamarine and bottomless topaz.

Borrowed where she cannot buy,

Covetous of sheen, and glamour and sex

Dreaming held in tightened bow,

Engaged is she, and Mazel Tov!

Full of plans, nothing impromptu.

Gleeful at what she can net,

Heedless of the petty risks

Iridescent as the day draws near,

Jesting all will need a tranq.

Keen to author the full line-up,

Leaves on the plan, ready to go.

Minute precise, the sewer’s train

Now to veil the lady's charm,

Over the top, no chink, no tell,

Pledge to a team and make it work.

Quell the naysayers, hold her Raj

Regal, adorned, no ennui,

Steal the crown in breathless hush,

To gain the prize she’s wanting,

Under their eyes, to fulfil the brief

Vying for the greatest pride

Will fixed to succeed,

Xeric hearts and minds of logic,

Yearnings require a climb,

Zeniths call for megalomania.

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Authors note: This morning, I took a walk before work, and decided it would be enormously fun, surely, to write an abecedarian in which I then inverted the alphabet for the closing letter of each line, whilst simultaneously writing an inverse poem also. Well, it is fair to say I am not always right.