Today's dual prompts from Write Better Poetry and NaPoWriMo: (1)Write a poem with the title "The Last _________", and (2) as inspired by "Sleeping Beauty," write a poem musing on gifts you received at birth and a "curse" you have had to live with throughout your life. I didn't follow the second prompt exactly--instead I used Sleeeping Beauty as a more direct inspiration to write my own "flash fairy tale." I used one of my favorite forms, the hay(na)ku, to write a fairy tale of exactly 48 words.
The Last Baby Gifts
Faeries
gave presents
to the princess
on
the occasion
of her birth
the
last two
opened in celebration
each
quite different
from the other
opening
the first
box left her
blessed
to always
tell the truth
opening
the second
box left her
cursed
to always
tell the truth
1 comment:
Oh, that's very smart, Bruce. Yes, blessings can be curses and vice versa. Great!
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