POW PROMPT 4
Well it's time to find your inner child and settle back for story time with Rall
sprouting a whole lot of silliness.
The Rabbit's Tale
Tea parties are torture
with Alice
a pretty little girl
of scorpion heart
whose cutting comments
and withering looks
can cause guests to disappear
into their shoes,tip a saucer on end
and reduce a rabbit to a pipsqueak
She was much nicer before meeting
blue caterpillar and meanie mushroom
spending far too much time with them
down in the glade
Her eyes are ring'd smoked hookah blue...
from rolling too many bluebells and hollyhocks
Constantly squeezing and pummeling me
until I bruise blue she insists on my
presence at her afternoon teas with misfits
sporting strange hats with price tags
grinning cats and tweedle dumdee twins
when all I really want to do is race off frantically
in a waist coat with a pocket watch
just like any other abnormal rabbit
If I crouch down very still
I might get lucky and disappear
Too bad about these ears
Oh crikey, she is stroking my scut
I can feel myself blushing pink from the feet up
Where the hell is that ' drink me ' bottle?
Love, love, love this one, Rall! Poor Alice with her scorpion heart! Silly is good ... we all need a daily dose taken along with our Vitamin D.
ReplyDeleteLove the line: "when all I really want to do is race off frantically in a waist coat with a pocket watch just like any other abnormal rabbit"...made me chuckle.
ReplyDelete- Dina
oh, I can relate to our friend rabbit.
ReplyDeletequite a few of my lately-days are torturous, filled with girls like alice; disappearing does seem lucky, indeed.
nice write.
(my link is in my name, I hope, unless it is "just like any other rabbit")
Allie should keep her hands to herself, BunBun. It's the pretty bluebell smoke misbehaving her. I see her inhibitions circling her head, blue rings.
ReplyDeleteLove this bunches, Rall.
Mine is Friendly Alice T
What a fun interpretation of the prompt!
ReplyDeleteWell, this painting certainly summoned something rather unusual for me: Peg-Legged Alice!
ReplyDeleteRallentanda, I love your lines about Alice:
a pretty little girl
of scorpion heart
whose cutting comments
and withering looks
can cause guests to disappear
into their shoes...
She's not a nice little girl anymore! Enjoyed your take on Blackman's take on this pop icon. Wonderful!
How could we view the Blackwell and not see all of the potential for naughty poems? Loved your stanza two and blaming it on peer pressure. My rabbit is the corruptor in:
ReplyDeleteDating in Wonderland
http://jdmackenzie.blogspot.com/2010/05/dating-in-wonderland.html
Rall - first, thanks for the prompt. Secondly, thanks for the laugh...you have revealed why that silly cockeyed rabbit is sporting that look! Liked, especially, "Her eyes are ring'd smoked hookah blue..."
ReplyDeleteI gave it a stab at Getting Ekphrastic with Alice.
I think she'd rather be back with blue caterpiller and that hookah pipe...
ReplyDeleteHere's mine: TOUGH LIFE
Here's my poem. http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com
ReplyDeleteI will read yours later - I gotta rush.
Rall this is super and love this:
ReplyDeletefrom rolling too many bluebells and hollyhocks
Excellent! Thanks for a great prompt.
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2010/05/tea-party-pow-4.html
I think you keep to the spirit of the book rather nicely.
ReplyDeleteI want to say thanks for this prompt. I disliked the painting on first sight, but as I started to study it to write my poem, I found it really interesting.
My poem is at http://thelaughinghousewife.wordpress.com
What a thoroughly undesirable lot they seem apart from the cuddly white, pink & blue rabbit - speaking of which, I learned a new word; scut!
ReplyDeleteMine's here:
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2010/05/tea-party-pow-prompt-4.html
Rall, your poem was worth waiting til Wednesday for. The first stanza specially says a lot of what I feel about the picture, but so cleverly. The scorpion heart is particularly apt.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what I came up with, it just immediately brewed from the painting....
ReplyDeletehttp://mypoeticlicense.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/tale-of-siblings/
- Dina
Dead good! You can stroke my scut anytime!!
ReplyDeleteYou'll find my contribution here: The Amazonian Hatter
Thanks for the invitation Andy but I might pass on that one!
ReplyDeleteBluebells are a gateway drug. Better get poor Alice to rehab. Love the poem and can't wait to read what others came up with.
ReplyDeleteHere's mine:
The madness of a hatter-less hat
This was not an easy prompt. It gave me a very pleasing insight into your imaginative abilities and I think most of you managed it with humour.The responses have been varied and
ReplyDeleteI have been smiling a lot reading them. I am also pleased to note a lot of creative
expression(aka craziness)... So thanks for
poeming with me and your generous comments.
It's always odd, (fun), to step into someone's well known prompt and wonder, "What's going on here"? Don't tell me..I'll figure it out, what else do I have to do?
ReplyDeleteI have the bottle!
I love this, Is really great!
ReplyDeleteYou have nice place here :)
Have fun writing!
Hugs Marinela
Marinela
ReplyDeleteMozarella
Watcha got there
Under your feet
Don't tell Alice
She's in the palace
Doin' the tarantella
with Sweet
(Sweet talking Guy ie)
This is a lovely poem...I love how it flows like a story. Alice and Wonderland is full of fantasy, intrigue, and magic. Amazing site here as well :)
ReplyDeleteit is a lovely prompt rall
ReplyDeletesurreal and evocative.
love your fraught rabbit =)
http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2010/05/black-tea.html
hilarious, i so love alice and all the characters... i like this version of alice and the wonderland... cannot get enough... i found some of the other paintings of his... interesting artist.. thanks for the info i wouldn't have known abt him.... uninvited
ReplyDeleteGlad you found Charles Blackman interesting OMB
ReplyDeleteThere are a few interesting folk from down under who need a little more exposure to counteract our stereotypical image of the laconic, laid back, anti authoritarian,droll,
flat vowelled speaking slack arses who would rather be lying on a beach with a beer than anything else ( which of course includes me!:)