Ring 'Round the Rosie

Magpie Tales provided the photograph prompt you see to the left, today.  Fascinating, isn't it?  When you look at it, what do you see?  Pulling?  Pushing?  Play?

To be honest, this sculpture can mean many different things, depending on your perspective - and I've already had the pleasure of reading a number of different interpretations. 

As a mom of tween twins, I caught, out of the corner of my memory's eye, a flashing glimpse of a game my kids and I played back when they were really small.  I decided to write to the prompt from that point of view, and thought it might be fun to try it as a Virelai, which, according to The Poets Garret, is a variation on the French form Lai.

Ring ‘Round the Rosie

Ring ‘round the Rosie.

Mom and kids, cozy.

All fall.

Circle and mosey

all for that poesy.

Down all.

When children are small

it’s good to enthrall

with dance.    

In kitchen or hall,

 (no difference at all) -

just prance.

We all did that dance.

It served to enhance…

...cozy.                          

Ah, childhood romance,

ah memory, enhance.

 ‘Rosie.’

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