White Diamond

                       She was a dark haired beauty

With a twinkle in her

violet eyes

That grew through

The years

And sparkled.

And light lit the

Stage whenever she performed

And grew and grew

Until

It twinkled so brightly

And a star was born.

The star gathered light

And now glitters

In the heavens

As bright as

The biggest white

Diamond

 So that we

Will not forget

Our

Beloved

Elizabeth.

Susan Bergeron

April 25, 2011

“Eventually the inner shapes the outer you, especially

when you reach a certain age, and you have been

given the same features as everyone else.  God

has arranged them in a certain way.  But around 40

the inner you actually chisels your features…Life is

to be embraced and enveloped.  Surgeons and knives

have nothing to do with it.  It has to do with a connection

with nature.  God, your inner being---whatever you want

to call it---it’s being in contact with yourself and allowing

your self, allowing God to mold you." Elizabeth Taylor

(from an unpublished 1987 interview published April 14, 2011 in Rolling Stone)