"hairclips" poems
*O come
gentle persons all
and listen to the woeful tale
of an unfortunate lover*
1
I pitied Cinderella
and knocked at her door
when everyone was away
and I sang:
*Come, run away with me
and I shall look after you -
all the days of my life
all the days of yours*
Get lost, she said.
*I’ve a premonition
of glass slippers
and Princes and castles*
2
And so I went to fair Verona
to see if Juliet would
give me her hand
but it was her father
who showed me the toughness
of his servant’s hands
3
And ah, I went to Rapunzel
and I said: *Oh, let down your hair
and I’ll come to you;
and I’ll find a way for both of us
to run away to better lands*
Get lost, she said
*You don’t look like a man
who can afford to get
me the best shampoo
and golden diamond-studded hairclips -
new ones everyday
for my hairdo*
4
And so I waited
for Cleopatra
till Brutus and the conspirators
stuck their daggers into Caesar
and I went to her mansions
but the guards seized me and they said:
*You ever heard of Cleopatra’s needles?
Where’d you like us
to stick them in you?*
5
and so, desperate,
I went to **** myself
back in Verona
in the family crypt of the Capulets
and woe is me -
I really don’t know why -
but I’m thrown into prison now
*‘for the ****** of two’*
Oct 10, 2010
Oct 10, 2010 at 9:51 PM UTC
They were three,
Playing with her hair in a spree,
Clasping a handsome tuft in her hand
She left off her hair-band,
Suddenly she broke one’s solitude
And let him into her glossy hood.
There was none,
to inhibit there union
for they epitomized joy
On a face that seemed so coy.
The gazing eyelids cherished
As she let her left-outs loose,
She was cruel to not let a few
Merge with them on a truce.
Again and again, her locks fell,
their failure to entangle the fallen
striking them insane.
They only drest her braid,
Pained to see, her dangling locks
Kiss her forehead.
For on a lyrical note,
They redefined beauty
Letting not her flawless exuberance
Being curtailed to brevity.
A rhythm so ambrosial
was ne’er to be found,
for it was divine symphony
simply all around !!!
--- Shubham Roy
Oct 28, 2015
Oct 28, 2015 at 3:59 AM UTC