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Beauty, sleeping (revised) (Free verse) by Ranger
Hers was not an apple
Hers was a jetplane
A 21st century Icarus
Her true wish was to break the spell
Escape the labyrinths of her tower forever
Shatter glass
She day-dreamed a Prince, spinning her a golden ladder
Climbing past her mother
Swinging through the windows
I attempted a rescue
Hollywood style
But the thorns got her first
Scratched her eyes like shards of her motherâs mirror
Malice through the Looking Glass
No matter how much I cried
She still couldnât see me
Meanwhile those brambles had become a forest,
entwined themselves seductively round my hands and her hair
Drew blood
A perfect chance to release her, or so I thought
Sadly my sword was not designed for such use
On plants
(Alas-for soon the woodsman appeared on the scene
Equipped with his axe
Hunting, I believe
Seeking game at any rate-
This was not to be my day)
Well, although she longed for a Prince
My three gifts of happiness, friendship and a
"Get out of Jail Free" card
Went unrecognised
Intercepted, perhaps, by the scheming witch downstairs
Either way, I had a kingdom to manage
Castles dwarves and all
So my stallion and me turned away
And left her to stamp and hurl rampion
Fairies, too
They cast a spell at me
I dodged and she slept for a hundred years
Under a gingerbread sky
I wept in the woods
There the wolf wept too, for his grandma had died
Murdered, by all accounts
He huffed
And he puffed
And he blew the princess away
My, what a big heart you have
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