Simple Sunday Contemplates “A Bargain Kept.”
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This week we are featuring American artist Rob Rey.
He does portraits and fantasy art.
Our featured image is one of his most recent
and is titled “A Bargain Kept.”
Write what your poetic muse sees in or imagines from this image
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Welcome to the Simple Sunday picture challenge! What “bargain kept” could this artwork suggest? Or what else might it inspire in your poetic muse?
EVA’S GAMBIT
Eva Ivanova’s dream
was predicated on a scheme
to win the love of her young life
and dance through dreamland as his wife.
A magic potion was her hope
in psalter swung from velvet rope,
to swiftly find and win her prize
thus precluding lovers’ lies.
But something hopped into her path,
passing through hot vapor’s bath.
Instead of prince to share her life,
Eva became frog prince’s wife.
The frog prince ruled the kingdom well.
o’er all subjects bound by spell
of Eva’s psalter potion’s power;
a bargain kept by magic dower.
Copyright Sept. 7 2013 RGD
WONDER OF THE MIND
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At great distance
This beauty looks far
Eyes fill with desire and heart heavy
Mind a wonder just what
And so how far
The road be
She long to travel the world see great thing
Her little friend sat by her side
Did crock in the night
Yet she still
Wondered if the tales were true
If kiss the frog
Make a wish
Would all her dreams
Be so forfilled
Are would it so turn into a prince
In the lake like mirrors
When she look
Did see face of a prince
Yet that was then
Now the frog sit near made her mind wonder more of
On the eve when stars were shining
This fair maiden close her eyes
To made her wish
The frog crooked she jumped by surprise eye wide open
And to her view
She sees it was just the frog
After all still be
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Written By: Bettie Davis ————————————— © September o8 , 2o13
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“A Bargain Kept” by Rob Rey
FOREVER LOST
Cast out and forsaken,
paradise forever lost,
on the outside looking in
we’re left to contemplate the loss,
never imagining that the bargain
struck with a gloating serpent
would really come to pass.
But lost within temptation’s wake,
succumbing to its worldly wiles,
paradise slips from human grasp,
the serpent’s unholy take,
beauty forsaken forever,
death and destruction,
despair through seduction,
Satan’s bargain struck
forever bound and kept
as we contemplate to this day
our mere humanity
and earthly paradise lost.
(c) barbara kausteklis 9-8-13