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Cinderella
August 2, 2013
She donned her gowns
Puffs of silk- a confection,
Brushed her hair
Till it gleamed with perfection.
She winked at the mirror,
At her lovely reflection-
Cinderella.
She entered the ball
And all eyes did swerve,
Her lovely young figure
And slender smooth curves.
The prince came running,
She brought out his inner perv-
Cinderella.
In under two minutes
He was in love,
No conversation needed,
Beauty was enough.
The ugly snotty stepsisters
Left in a huff-
Cinderella.
Just stop and realize
This is a sham!
Looks don’t fetch happiness
It’s a media scam.
Don’t be fooled
By the superficial glam-
By Cinderella.
© Jana S., Suffern, NY
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Wondering_About_Infinity SILVER said...
on Apr. 11 2014 at 1:35 am
Well, thank you very much. You're doing great things for my confidence right now :)
This is so intriguing, especially because you bring out an aspect of an old fairy tale that no one has thought about before. A suggestion to improve it; maybe you could've sneaked in the "shallowness" of looks in the previous stanzas as well. As in, while I'm reading the poem, I'm all like "Oh cool, Cinderella is good and beautiful, HA to the ugly stepsisters", so the last stanza comes as a bit of a surprise; it isn't consistent with the rest of the poem so it takes away from the experience a little bit, because you don't expect it to be a satire. But this is great, I'm just nitpicking here. :)
Wondering_About_Infinity SILVER said...
on Feb. 16 2014 at 11:07 pm
Thank you very much! I love the way you said this is a "satirical piece on society" and suddenly I'm like hey, I wrote a satirical piece on society! Sheesh, who knew I was that cool?
Please rate and comment, and sorry about my babbling! (I tend to do that sometimes...)