Taking Notes: Stab at Poetry
Sometimes we should try something outside of our comfort zone. Poetry is that something for me. I get so caught up on it being perfect, that I tend to forget the purpose of poetry: to illicit an emotion. What emotions do you feel as you read my poem?
Once upon a time
In a land far from here
Dwelt a king and a queen
And their daughter, so dear.
The child was delightful,
Fair and so pure.
A blessed ruler she would make,
Of this they were sure.
Time passed along
As time often will
And the princess grew up
And developed a skill.
Her magic was smokey,
A dark, clingy mist,
And death did it bring
To all that it kissed.
Her parents met
An unseemly demise
As they grew most decrepit
Right before her eyes.
The princess, she ruled
Amidst death and despair
But for the cries of her people
She had not the slightest care.
Her enemies lay
In mounds of pale bone
The horrors they suffered
Will never be known.
For the princess lay waste
To all of the earth
And sits all alone
A wraith with a curse.
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