muse

Rodin carved Camille
Warhol filmed Edie
Brinkley’s Joel’s Uptown Girl
Beatrice guided Dante
Neil wrote sweet Caroline
Jagger’s Brown Sugar's Marsha
a Manet revolution inspired by Victorine
Stieglitz photographed Georgia
Vadim put Bardot on the big screen
Koons made it in heaven with his Ilona
Vemeer painted those pearl earrings
Dali drew, painted, and sculpted Gala
Maud tortured Yeats, as Fanny did to Keats
Suze and then Sara moved Dylan
Man Ray idolised a monochrome Kiki
Elton wrote Marilyn - a candle in the wind

Of beauty non pareil,
Love consummated or unrequited
Sweet desire as much as crippling pain
Divine creation's flame is lighted
Relationships that last an eternity
Or destroyed in a flash of brilliance that blinds
In music, paint or marble, penned in rhyme or prose
All are but sacrifices at the altar of the Nine
Set in black and white or technicolour
Every artist worships a muse who
Bestows an olive branch that inspires
Mine’s someone I’ve never met named Sue