Too small, too BIG

Poetics – Modern Day Mythology

 

 

Mary's dverse prompt this week is "to think of a character that we were familiar with, one that  might be fun, inspiring, or even provocative to write about. It can be a real person or a fairy tale character or folk tale character.

 

Here we go!

 

 

 

Looking for adventure

Alice takes a fall.

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   O

      W

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she tumbles into another world.

With mystical illusions

and advice from a caterpillar.

She can’t decide if she wants to be BIG

or small.

Drinking from the bottle

and eating the mushrooms and cakes.

She tries to walk through many different doors.

As she grows too quickly everyone starts to tease her

and too much pepper always makes her sneeze.

Running in circles proves to get you nowhere

and this is the stupidest tea party she’s ever seen!

Playing games with one dimensional faces

who at the slightest dissatisfaction scream

“off with his head!”

The Gryphon takes her to the trial

but on the way

she is chastised by the Dormouse

for being too BIG.

Everyone grows, she says,

as if she’s the one on trial

and with that she is stricken from the court.

Citing Rule 42,

the King and Queen are upon her

 she covers her head from the hail of playing cards.

 

Slowly she awakens by the river

and shakes the leaves from her tousled hair.

The adventure over

she walks easily through the door

and suddenly

she is just the right size again.