Hello PoetryVoting

Vote

Voting-Boards

Home

HomeFollowingInboxNotifications

Read

ReadLiftedFeedsHeartedHistoryMy poemsNew poem

Explore

ExploreOrbitsWordsTagsClassics
Log in
0
Stars
0
Embers
0
Alerts
0
Inbox

Vote

Voting-Boards

Home

HomeFollowingInboxNotifications

Read

ReadLiftedFeedsHeartedHistoryMy poemsNew poem

Explore

ExploreOrbitsWordsTagsClassics
Log in
0
Stars
0
Embers
0
Alerts
0
Inbox

Inside The Mind of a Cowardly Lion

Allow me to introduce myself, I am the Lion that’s cowardly. A puss in boots of the sorts, crippled with anxiety. At this very moment, I am feeling sublime. For I am laying face-up in a poppy field, stoned out of my mind. The fog is starting to clear, it's all coming back to me now. What was I thinking? What, when, why, how!? It all started when I met a girl named Dorothy and her dog Toto, accompanied by a tin guy with no heart and a brain dead scarecrow She said that a wizard in Oz can put some courage in me. All I need to do was to follow them to the Emerald City. Some may call it a lack of better judgment, but I followed her lead, skipping down a yellow brick road toward my destiny. I immediately regretted it, but I was too scared to go back. So I kept on following her regardless of my anxiety attack. Now it could just be me... but all things terrifying seem to follow Dorothy. She is being stalked by a witch, traveling on a broom by air. Her companions are flying demon monkeys, out of my worst nightmare. I think that Dorothy may also be insane. She keeps blabbering about a place called Kansas again and again. I'm almost certain this place does not exist, she is talking crazy. Maybe she should ask the wizard for a pill that will cure her insanity. I think I'll just lie here in the poppies, pretending to be high. Maybe they'll leave me here, I can only hope they pass me by. Ill go back to my forest, back to my cowardly ways, back to being scared of my shadow, back to better days.
Request permission to use this poem
Written by
RebeccaAnn
42 / F / Houston
Published
Oct 18, 2020
Lines·Words
37·294
Notes

"I'm afraid there's no denying

I'm just an awful dandy-lion

A fate I don't deserve

But I could show my prowess

Be a lion, not a mouse

If I only had the nerve" - The Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz

Tags
#poem#poetry#rhyme#thewizardofoz#cowardlylion
Permission

Request to use this poem

Tell RebeccaAnn how you would like to use it. We review requests before forwarding them.

AboutBlogFAQPrivacyTermsContact
© 2009-2026 Hello Poetry/v27.0 by @eliotyork
Explore
Hello PoetryVoting
Write