Sarahbelle O'Dell

Sarahbelle O'Dell Poems

Sarahbelle O'Dell Biography

Well, Sarahbelle O'Dell is my 'authors name' because I don't feel that my birth name needs to be on the internet for all to see. Although... I might even legally change my name to that someday. I'm a pastry chef and baker by trade, and I have a serious fetish for sweet things... and a taste for the bittersweet in life and literature. I just like to read things that make me feel.)

The Best Poem Of Sarahbelle O'Dell

Sacharrine Soubrette- The Sweet Girl

(Explanation: For those of you who are not familiar with some pastry-related terms: black-jack is sugar that has been burned while trying to be caramelized and is very bitter, cloying means something is much too sweet for the palette, petite fours are little cakes with a glaze over them, and coulis is a sweetened fruit puree)

I am the Sweet Girl, encrusted in sugar,
Covered in a crystalline glaze.
I make many things that may seduce you,
All sitting behind glass- so perfect.

I am the Sweet Girl, my hair spun like candy
My sticky fingers held out to greet you...
I curtsy and you may kiss them,
And taste my black-jack bittersweet soul.

I am the Sweet Girl, powder puff of confection,
I delight in those treats that twinge your jaw so cloyingly.
No one tastes sweets like I do,
I dream of pink frosting and glistening petite fours.

I am the Sweet Girl, your fragile little cookie,
Connoisseur of the cake, the pastry, the tart.
And even though I have a cherry pie smile,
Strawberry coulis bleeds from the cracks in my heart.

Some call me Saccharine Soubrette.

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