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Friday, November 11, 2011

A Delicate Thing Considers Her Swain

I am a delicate thing in a delicate hour--
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!

21 comments:

  1. Hear that? It's me clapping furiously and I'm smiling my silly head offtoo!
    I LOVE it!!

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  2. I knew this prompt was just for you! You didn't disappoint. You gotta watch out for those good girls!

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  3. too good to be true = look OUT!


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  4. Came back for a second read- Gawd how I love those shrunken heads.

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  5. This is fabulous, fantabulous. I can just see the delicate thing saying "Sir" and suitably looking up at her victim through her eyelashes.

    Kay, Alberta, Canada
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  6. 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.

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  7. Wicked...love it! Be careful of too good to be true.. :)

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  8. This was a prompt made for you, my friend. I love your frightening fairy tales. This was such a good one, (she says with relish:))

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  9. "Root and rot and eternity sweet." Wow. This whole thing is so creative!

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  10. "I'll be slaving like a servant
    Hide the potion
    Stash the serpent"

    Damn, girl! That sounds like my house!

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  11. The dangerous ones are always the last ones you'd expect.

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  12. There's a pea under that mattress !

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  13. You've nailed another great prompt. Love the photo, too. I'm going to have to try one of these soon. xo

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  14. Muah ha ha...

    Stash that serpent, indeed.

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  15. eepp! i have nothing to worry about though, all those other men have nothing to compare to me...smiles.

    wicked and nicely penned shay.

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  16. This prompt was made for you.. and you didn't disappoint. Delicate and cunning girl..ha..ha...I love this ~

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  17. {i have to come back to read this after i write mine~if i read yours first i won't write anything.} ♥

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  18. Great one... what a wicked way with men she has... must be the hair

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  19. Oh man, I am cracking up. Love this:

    "Like wiping out the traces
    Like the hanging shrunken faces
    Of my suitors before you;"

    And the closing. :)

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  20. 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!

    perfect for the photo!!!

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