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POEM STARTER
Write a poem based on a classic children's story.
You don't have to recount the story, but try to draw ideas or themes from it. It doesn't have to be based on a fairytale; it could be a Disney story, a myth, or even a traditional family tale.
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Solid do I stand
Borne from sky to land
For the true kings hand
To pull me free
And gather fine knights
To serve and to fight
For those without might
From land to sea
Until dark befall
Avalon and all
They will heed the call
And forge their way
To their long quests end
For those they defend
And the realm to mend
Itself one day.
...
Spare
Once upon a time
There was a young princess.
She had four older sisters.
And 3 older brothers.
Her name was Princess Annet
As the youngest,
no one cared where she goes
Or what happens to her.
Everyone thinks of her as the spare.
With so many older siblings,
Princess Annet was allowed to run
Free.
She rarely wore her hair
Pinned up and tamed.
Her hair was most often wild and free
Or pinne...
I want to be a real boy
To feel a warmth in these palms
As my hands destroy
Ravaging, wrecking, devoid of calm
I want to be a real boy
I am telling lies by day
And I know you’re fooled too
With your slack jaw face, nothing to say
The only thing I’ve said that was ever true
“I want to be a real boy”...
I lied to her.
By nature I'm the only one who tells the truth.
That's the first thing anyone ever says about me,
But I lied to her because I'm very easy to break and she has a temper.
It didn't come naturally at first,
I won't have you thinking poorly of me,
Image, in my case, really is everything.
Lies stick in my throat like a little shard of me is breaking away,
But she asked me every single...
It’s a classic teen film but like…
Kind of sick of this trash
Wearing a bloodied sash
Yelling kick me bite me
Please just leave me be
Need some peace
Your insults don’t cease
Well how would you like it
If drama was tightly knit
Round you, life’s not worth living
Let’s let the telephone ring
Wouldn’t be for me, clearly not
Seen as my reputations rot
Kicking an untouchable thing
now I know ...
I only got my brightest hours
Then I'm going down.
Pray my glass heels don't shatter
When its time to skip town.
We move through the crowd.
Take my hands in yours.
You say I'm the prettiest.
I've say I've heard it before.
The birdsong speaks to me.
In the aftermath.
In the house turned prison.
In the blue mornings.
In the wake after the best dream I've ever had.
I had to go.
Maybe its just not ...
I grew up inside magazines,
Skinny little skeletons
Dance inside my head,
Brilliant golden silks ensnaring bodies so unfed.
They were beautiful angelfish,
Slicing through green water with
Angular rib cages. And there was me,
A bloated mess of fat. A whale sort of fish.
I sold my ugly tail, blubber for
Beauty. A shiny pair of thin
Little legs. A slender figure
Garmenting a menagerie of scales an...
Everyone has a long nose
Some longer than others
Some shorter than others
Those with the long noses
Hope that one day they, that will become a
‘Cinderella’
They hope
To twirl around with their elegant clothes
And to be partnered with their wine glasses
So they lie
Their duplicity is their invitation ticket to the rat race of a ball
They boost themselves
Their ego squeezes their hands in warm...
In a kingdom far, far away, there was once a girl named Bella. She had gorgeous dirty blonde hair and the most striking green eyes that could sweep any man off his feet. She loved to read, and was extremely gentle to animals. But there was one thing, one thing that had been hard to come by lately, that made her so lovable. She was kind.
Her father had been taken away to prison in a horrible misu...
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