Fairy Tale Poems

Our poetry club hosted a Fairy Tale poetry slam and I competed for the first time. Here's the poems I presented in the order I presented them:

Disney Cento

Certain as the sun rising in the east,

I want adventure in the great wide somewhere:

A dazzling place I never knew.

Bittersweet and strange

Wish I could be a part of that world.

Yes I know it’s true that visions

are seldom what they seem, though

I keep wishing it would be that way,

 But a dream is a wish your heart makes.

And I can’t go back to where I used to be

Cause for the first time ever I’m completely free.

and this once upon a time will never end.

Get Some Fairy Tail

Welcome to the Grimm

Red light district

Where you can get some

Fairy tail

No fantasy is out of reach

We’ll guarantee your happy ending

Anything your heart desires

Will come …

to you.

We’ll huff and puff and blow your mind

Is Alice’s body your wonderland?

Who is Little Red riding tonight?

Where did Jack plant his giant stalk?

And at the stroke of midnight

Find out exactly how the wolf ate granny.

Leave your breadcrumbs behind!

Because by the end of the night,

You won’t want to find your way home.

Sonnet 3

This one still needs some work, but I'll share it anyway. Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

I fear my life is limited

I fear my life is limited by time

although my potential may seem quite vast

designed by you this role I am cast

your goal to fashion an image sublime.

How long, I ask, until the bell’s sweet chime

and helpless watch as future becomes past?

Amazed to find I’m questioning at last

is being passionate my only crime?

While insistent am I all doubts repelled,

you continue to foster endless fears

it’s true that over time my dreams dispelled

please just keep silent like my falling tears

but even still by passion I’m compelled

you’re powerless to stop the passing years.