POEM: Eva’s Gambit
This was written to the featured art on the CPC Simple Sunday picture challenge. The art is by Rob Rey and is titled “A Bargain Kept.”
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