Poem: "A Princely Abode"

[ysabetwordsmith]

This is the free epic, selected in an audience poll, for the September 4, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl reaching the $200 goal.  It came out of the January 17, 2012 bonus fishbowl.  It was inspired by a prompt from rix_scaedu.  This poem belongs to the series Fiorenza the Wisewoman, and you can find out more about that via the Serial Poetry page.

Comments

[ellenmillion]

Ha ha! I'm with the frog prince - I'd stay in her garden, too.

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm glad you enjoyed this.

>>Ha ha! I'm with the frog prince - I'd stay in her garden, too.<<

I probably would too.

[marina_bonomi]

This reminds me of Zhuangzi: "Now would this tortoise rather be dead and have its bones left behind and honored? Or would it rather be alive and dragging its tail in the mud?"

http://www.noogenesis.com/pineapple/Chuang_Tzu.html

One could say that the cursed prince has grown quite a lot.

*laugh*

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> This reminds me of Zhuangzi: "Now would this tortoise rather be dead and have its bones left behind and honored? Or would it rather be alive and dragging its tail in the mud?" <<

Better the mud, heh heh.

>> One could say that the cursed prince has grown quite a lot. <<

Sometimes a curse is a blessing in disguise. And now we've got a matched set of magic pointing in opposite directions of its intent.