Day-18 OctPoWriMo-2018
Prompt: Once Upon A Time (Form: Fable)
Image: From a friend
Once upon a time,
There lived a pretty lass
On the wild coast of sunny paradise
She serenaded the breezy palms
Her world filled with many dreams
Weaving a carpet of magic
She wanted to travel far and wide.
She danced, pranced in youthful glee
Never letting sorrow touch her brows.
Life was an enchanting rhyme.
Oh! How she touched the sky when she felt happy!
She read, played, sang and danced in gay
There was nothing to stop her wild heart
Her life revolved around her loved ones
Her companions were the casuarina trees
Under their shade,
She wrote her dreamy verses
Nobody had the power
To change her fancy ways
Oh!How naive was she!
The forces gathered encore:
A prince in white armor
Displaying his shining epaulets
Saw the pretty lass
Dancing in the meadows
Her long hair swaying in the wild breeze
Her carefree laughter a fragrant chime
His heart felt the spell and went wild
He decided to tame her to his might.
Unknown to this sudden twist
The churning of tides
The lass was lost in her world
She had her happy dreams
She still had the sky in her eyes
Their winds of destiny were in charge
The prince set in motion to work
He tried every trick in the book
He followed her every track
He bribed her friends and flock.
There was no chance
For the lass to escape
She fell in the trap
Like a fish on a hook.
Destiny smiled,
It blew the winds
To rock her dreams
There was a thundering storm
It left debris and debris of broken dreams
Her life turned upside down
The forces of destiny were too strong.
She did try, to fight the odds
But she was wrong
One cannot fight one's fate
We are just pawns
In the hands of a greater force.
Then she understood...
Not every fairy tale has a happy ending.
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Love the dramatic twist at the end! :)
ReplyDeleteThat is how fairy tales end nowadays. Thank you Sam :)
DeleteFantastic poem!
ReplyDeleteI have long thought it is a terrible thing to teach people that romantic love is some sort of be-all and end-all, and that without it we are lesser. I think this outmoded idea has ruined many lives.
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DeleteWe cannot live in those fairy tales anymore. Where women were depicted as weaklings. It is time for empowerment. Today, I was reading in a newspaper, how actor Keira Knightly didn't allow her daughter to watch Cinderella and The Mermaid.We cannot bring up our children giving wrong impression of a changing world.
DeleteDefinitely, fairy tales don't have happy endings. The original ones didn't either - the Brothers Grimm, Mother Goose, Hans Christian Anderson, the original stories have really gruesome endings. Romance isn't everything it's cracked up to be, for sure. Fantastic piece!
ReplyDeleteThey were real word weavers.But, the world is not safe anymore. Cannot escape from the reality.Thank you Shuku :)
Deletevery good fable!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAh yes... and the sad end. Nicely done!
ReplyDeleteHappy ending fables are lost in childhood. Thank you Jenni :)
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