Three sisters, sit on a wall,
One of the sisters had a great fall
All the Moons phases and tear-streaked faces
Could not put us back in those high-hoped places
Fur-fraught sister of our nights
here on this scribbled screen. I love your howl.
How easily it is to make a song of this
hormoned screech of need and plead
that bled from the head of a thousand
dead soldiers, trying to slay our dragons
that can’t be killed.
High on the fiddle and diddle of moon
The Blue Boy jumps and none too soon
And the wish, oh, the wish to nestle and spoon
Fairy me a tale, sister. Make it have a happy ending
for I am tired of being Gretel’s gingerbread breast
and no gold armor can glint in this shadow.
George in his pudding and Jim in his sauce;
Five and twenty love songs sung out of lust;
Skip-roping chant and teddy bears
never had such silken reality as this
I will be the witch who watches the pot.
You be the step-mother who forgives herself.
And, you, brother, can be the reason we purr.
In a list
- Written for Pen Friends and A Pack of Poets • next in list
- My Favorite AP Poets • next in list
- List of Poems Written for Me by AP Poets (under construction) • next in list
- Gold Poetry • next in list
- Beautiful Words by Beautiful People I Know • next in list
A contest entry
- Contest ~ Pay It Forward Redux by Night Hope.
600 points, ended January 27, 2007, 7 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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Absolutly wonderful
as is all of your poems I have read. I love how you took all the fairy tales and nursery rhymes we grew up with and re made them into a meaningful piece of peotry..Thank you for this fun piece of poetry. Darlene
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thank you J aime, it was a very fun piece to write and I loved that I did it for wanda. I tried to write so she woudl not know my voice....think it did not work.
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simply purrfect...
what an interesting play on words. Your vision has shown us the way to the pot of gold. The childlike verses twisting into a fantastic write, tells a fairy tale of success. well done and a real thank you for sharing this with us.
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Thank you, Mike. It is good to take oneslef less seriously sometimes and jsut write whatever comes... It was a fun write for me.
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SO CUTE!
Very smoothe flow and cute little write.
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Congratulations on your award this was a great write,
I love your wording and I love the picture, and this was a delight to read once again,
Bravo Bravo
Frozentearz -
wow
this is a very interesting view of the picture
i enjoyed this
very different
very original
just a pleasure to read
thank you for sharing your talent with us
keep up the great writting.
Fire -
This is so cool.
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Thank you, Cherokee. It was fun doing this one.
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"Fur-fraught sister of our nights
here on this scribbled screen. I love your howl.
How easily it is to make a song of this
hormoned screech of need and plead
that bled from the head of a thousand
dead soldiers, trying to slay our dragons
that can’t be killed."
This has to be one of the most amazing stanzas, one of the most incredibly original poems I've ever had the pleasure of reading. I hope you feature it soon...it's a shame no one else has commented on it. Possibly 'cause ya post so many at once, no one had a chance to see it. 
I love your "take" on the picture & the contest theme. I love how deeply you look into my eyes, my heart, even from this distance...really looking, like you think you might find something in there that no one else bothered to even hope for. "Fairy me a tale, sister. Make it have a happy ending"...Ohhh, yes...please do so...Thank you for entering my contest...I was quite pleased to see you had...You DO make me feel better, all the time...Be well, Poet...
Wanda
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Aw, but I can always count on you adn those who go to my page to check what I have done. I never expect people to read all my flurry of feelings, but am grateful when someone does it and it touches some truth in them. Pay It forward is such an awesome concept and one that I hope keeps going for a long time.
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