"...your feet…so petite…
Madame, just push...a bit more…
Ugh! Okay…they’re on."
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A Vamp for a Princess
“I think this shoe should fit you well,”
the Prince said to dear Cinderel-
la. But when he slid
on the shoe,
he knew not what he’d got into.
“Dear Prince, your buoyant mood I’ll quell.
You think that shoe should fit me well?”
the young girl asked, with nostrils flared.
Her red lips parted.
Fangs were bared.
The Prince jumped back. He was surprised.
“I guess the shoe thing’s ill-advised?
I thought the shoe would fit you well.
It seems you’re under – what? – a spell?”
“I’d say,” sneered Cin, “so please don’t tamp-
er with my heart. C’mon
– a vamp? –
that’s for a vampire?
Your blood smell,
unlike that shoe, should feed me well.”
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Notes: Sorry for the long absence. I've actually written some poetry this month, but it didn't end up getting posted here for a variety of reasons. I've also been working on some short fiction, on Flashy Fiction, which is a prompt blog I co-host with several other terrific writers and poets - and I've been tweaking my middle grade, historical novel too. (More on that another time.)
Anyway, Sepia Saturday, one of my favorite prompt sites, provided the theme of shoes, along with the topmost picture for their weekly prompt. I wrote the 5/7/5 haiku for that picture, but then another idea crept (not crypt, by the way...groan!) into my head. I loved the idea of a 'vamp' being in a poem with...a vampire. After all, a vamp, according to one definition, is a part of a shoe. It's also a piece of improvised music, as well as a tempting lady. The form is Quatern.
