where the banshees pace and tear their hair,
hidden by green in the Toad Queen's bower
I awaited no other's kiss for fair.
I slew the crone who had worked the spell,
shed my skin and shook out my hair...
behold my Palace risen from Hell,
and cross at my pleasure the blood-pinked stair.
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for the name prompt at the Imaginary Garden With Real Toads.
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Ooooo, very nice Shay.
ReplyDeleteNice .. lets rock AND roll!
ReplyDeleteI love the tight rhyme, and the whole second stanza ought to be chanted while walking windershins around a deserted and profaned chapel. This is not your Mama's fairy palace.
ReplyDeleteOh, and *nothing* says kiss my butt like a chain link bikini and a claymore.
Oh Wow, Shay! How apt is your name? That is so cool. And these two stanzas seem to me to be just the beginning of a tale told in ballad form... She escapes from the Toad Queen's Tower, having shed the green skin and bloodied the stairs, but what happens next?
ReplyDeleteAwesome, Shay. Have you ever read any of Angela Carter's books? She was a magnificent, original writer and some of your writing reminds me of hers.
ReplyDeleteHere's a good site about her: http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/carter.html
WOW! SpecTACular! So great! I'm with Kerry, one just wants more and more of this.
ReplyDeleteMagical. Absolutely magical.
ReplyDeleteVery nice, the entire write is magical. Love the creature, Banshees, and Toad Queens- excellent, a palace risen from Hell- pleasure the blood-pinked stair. Great lines, really great lines in here, thanks for the read
ReplyDeletesmiles. i think it fits you...a little grit and while lotta beauty...
ReplyDeleteWow, this is really something!
ReplyDeleteKay, Alberta, Canada
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Awesome! Yours are no timid, little fairies! Watch out!
ReplyDeleteFairy palace... that rocks! I love how you put this together. Thanks for participating!
ReplyDeleteThat's lovely and you got such a good name meaning. Mine is "near a lake or pond." :)
ReplyDeleteSuperb, what's in a name - apparently fireworks!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun promt!
ReplyDeleteHow fun! I love your poem, it is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteoooooh! Fairy Palace! the perfect poem for your kind of fairy! {got combat boots?}
ReplyDeleterhyming, too? gotta be a doppelganger. {still shaking my head but now sitting on my ass cuz one should never shake their head if they have vertigo}
{my full name means "God judges me" ~ i didn't find that out until i was 30... alas, way too late...}