{"id":61877,"date":"2011-09-07T22:48:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T02:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/61877\/poem-alice-unchained\/"},"modified":"2011-09-07T22:48:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T02:48:05","slug":"poem-alice-unchained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/61877\/poem-alice-unchained\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Alice Unchained"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is my creative participation in the CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge<\/a>. \u00a0Jon and Diane have an Alice in Wonderland theme, one part of which is to write a poem based on six images from the early edition of the book. \u00a0I wrote a 7-8 beat ABAB stanza for each one, and incorporated them all into a poem\/song combination, using the “Painting the Roses Red” tune from the Disney movie version as the template for the song stanzas, which are identified with ~~~\/~~~.<\/font><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n


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Alice Unchained<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

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An invitation from the Queen
\nfrom one frog to another.
\nFingerprints of brightest green.
\nOne frog painted his brother!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

~~~We’re painting the froggies green.
\nWe’re painting the froggies green.
\nWe do it so
\nwe always show
\nour best side to the Queen!
\nWe’re painting the froggies green!~~~<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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“Why are you painting the roses red?”
\nAlice asked the five of spades.
\n“We do it to preserve the spread.
\nSo necks do not meet Queens’ blades!”<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

~~~We’re painting the roses red
\nWe’re painting the roses red.
\nWe do it so
\nwe all can grow,
\nwhile card’s attached to head!
\nWe’re painting the roses red!!~~~<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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“My dear, who are you really?”
\n“I’m Alice, the small and meek.”
\n“Then you’re in the wrong story.
\nIt’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’ you seek.”<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

~~~You’re seeking the wicked witch.
\nYou’re seeking the wicked witch.
\nThat is unless
\nyour luck you press
\nso you can make the switch!
\nYou’re seeking the wicked witch!~~~<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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“You must have the two days wrong!
\nEither this is your day or not!
\nIf so, we will sing your song!
\n“‘A Very Merry dot dot!'”<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

~~~Please move down you’ve sat too long!
\nPlease move down you’ve sat too long!
\nIt’s one of more
\nthree-sixty-four
\nfor your unbirthday song!
\nSo sing it before it’s gone!~~~<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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“I will leave you with a smile,”
\nvanishing Cheshire cat leered.
\n“Well so much for his beguile”
\nsaid Alice. “This place is really weird.”<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

~~~He’s leaving me with a smile
\nHe’s leaving me with a smile.
\nHe said he would
\nso riddance good.
\nHe was such a silly pile.
\nNow he’s leaving me with a smile!~~~<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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“I mean what I say,” she grumped.
\n“This is the silliest tea party.
\nYour mad hattery has me stumped.
\nYou think you’re such a smarty!”<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

~~~This tea party is too much!
\nReality’s out of touch!
\nHear what I said!
\nYou’ve messed my head!
\nI’ll get free from its clutch!
\nThis tea party is too much!~~~<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

Copyright August 7th 2011 RGD
\nWith Thanks to Lewis Carroll<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my creative participation in the CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge. \u00a0Jon and Diane have an Alice in Wonderland theme, one part of which is to write a poem based on six images from the early edition of the book. \u00a0I wrote a 7-8 beat ABAB stanza for each one, and incorporated them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}