In Sleeping Beauty's castle
the clock strikes one hundred years
and the girl in the tower returns to the world.
So do the servants in the kitchen,
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wow, people! notice how this poem which begins with reference to a fairy tale, to something of lesser consequence, ends with a profound note and a surprise. -glen kappy
Made me look at that God again and Again! thank you for sharing! ! ! 10+++! ! !
Starts like a fairytale and ends on a disturbing but honest epiphany....another great poem by the poet.
In the best of these poems, something dangerous, disturbing, hovers beneath the words - this is not surprising when you reflect on her life & background. This quality helps to give the poems just enough complexity and potential contradiction to make them beautiful.
this slight body with its transparent wings and life-span of one human day still craved its particular share of sweetness, a century later. immortality and the sharing sweetness of a dream like attitude., tony