Fairy Tales #2

This one was part of a massive poetry writing night. I believe I wrote four or five in one evening, though I did go back and edit liberally later. This picture's colors didn't translate well, the spray is supposed to be blue, not yellow, and the background should be grey, oh well.

Little Mermaid

I have no voice to speak my love;

the price I paid to stand by your side.

I must die unless love is returned,

but you have chosen another bride.

There is but one hope left for me

if I am to return to my home in the sea.

I must stab your sleeping heart

with the Sea Witch's cruel knife

and you blood drip on my human legs,

to return to my mermaid life.

But I love you

so I can't.

Formless now, I return to the sea,

my loving spirit in the churning foam.

So feel the spray as a kiss from me,

the mermaid who couldn't go home.

April 2002

Fairy Tales

I have a lifelong fascination with folk and fairytales. I've written several poems that either retell a fairytale or just capture a moment of the tale. All of these poems are written from a female character's point of view and most of them are of Hans Christian Anderson's tales. I'm proud of some of them and not so much of others, but I will include all of them in the series. Since I haven't updated my blog in so long I'll include two today. I'm also including two sketches that go along with the poems.

#1 is about Thumbalina, I wrote this just after graduating from Rick's college and I don't remember anything else about it.

Thumbalina's Flight

Fly, Swallow fly!

away to air,

away to light,

away from moles,

away from night.

Swallow fly!

in wind and song

swift, swift,

swift and high.

Fly!

to lands of life.

Breathe the sun,

taste the air.

Fly me!

Fly me there!

June 1999

Wireless Woes

I'm having unbelievable stress in trying to get my computer to work with the wireless at my apartment. After a couple updates and a few hundred dollars, I still don't have internet. So I'm continuing to blog from my parents computer when I visit on Sunday afternoons. I may eventually either get my computer to work with the wireless or just give it up and buy a new laptop, but that step is a long ways away.