Twelve is the time
And I assure you that I'm
Mulling on your answer, Sir;
I'll meet you in the bower,
Where my crickets most delicately chirr.
Before that, I have so much to do!
Like wiping out the traces
Like the hanging shrunken faces
Of my suitors before you;
I'll be slaving like a servant
Hide the potion
Stash the serpent
And put on a bashful face, a smiling face,
A suitable face to turn so delicately toward you.
I am a delicate thing in a delicate way
And if you knew what was on the way,
I assure you, Sir,
You'd faster stir
Than any of my suitors who came before you;
They linger in the bower
Right under your feet,
With root and rot and eternity sweet
To yearn for a delicate girl,
A wonderful girl,
A girl too good to be true.
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for Real Toads excellent fairy tale prompt!
Hear that? It's me clapping furiously and I'm smiling my silly head offtoo!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE it!!
I knew this prompt was just for you! You didn't disappoint. You gotta watch out for those good girls!
ReplyDeletetoo good to be true = look OUT!
ReplyDeleteAloha from Honolulu
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Came back for a second read- Gawd how I love those shrunken heads.
ReplyDeleteThis is fabulous, fantabulous. I can just see the delicate thing saying "Sir" and suitably looking up at her victim through her eyelashes.
ReplyDeleteKay, Alberta, Canada
An Unfittie’s Guide to Adventurous Travel
Delicious and wicked, and now I'm looking suspiciously at the floorboards. I bet your narrator is so delicate she can feel that little finger-bone under all those mattresses, too. Nice serpent stashing, or flourishing, as the case may be.
ReplyDeleteWicked...love it! Be careful of too good to be true.. :)
ReplyDeleteThis was a prompt made for you, my friend. I love your frightening fairy tales. This was such a good one, (she says with relish:))
ReplyDelete"Root and rot and eternity sweet." Wow. This whole thing is so creative!
ReplyDelete"I'll be slaving like a servant
ReplyDeleteHide the potion
Stash the serpent"
Damn, girl! That sounds like my house!
The dangerous ones are always the last ones you'd expect.
ReplyDeleteThere's a pea under that mattress !
ReplyDeleteYou've nailed another great prompt. Love the photo, too. I'm going to have to try one of these soon. xo
ReplyDeleteMuah ha ha...
ReplyDeleteStash that serpent, indeed.
eepp! i have nothing to worry about though, all those other men have nothing to compare to me...smiles.
ReplyDeletewicked and nicely penned shay.
This prompt was made for you.. and you didn't disappoint. Delicate and cunning girl..ha..ha...I love this ~
ReplyDeleteThat's way cool.
ReplyDelete{i have to come back to read this after i write mine~if i read yours first i won't write anything.} ♥
ReplyDeleteGreat one... what a wicked way with men she has... must be the hair
ReplyDeleteOh man, I am cracking up. Love this:
ReplyDelete"Like wiping out the traces
Like the hanging shrunken faces
Of my suitors before you;"
And the closing. :)
see ~ i knew not to read this before i wrote mine! i LOVE this! oh, those delicate girls and their potions and serpents and delicate things and delicate ways!
ReplyDeleteperfect for the photo!!!
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