Grimm Tale: Catching Moths

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Cpat Hair

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0 posted 2010-09-16 07:19 AM

“When” Wilhelm thought without malice
“Did it all begin?”

This gathering of tales and putting to scribe
Such cautions with their underlying hide of love or lust
Told since dust became the currency of time and all the beauties
Had found beasts to haunt night’s bed of calla
While children in an innocent greed became the meal
For outcasts personified in real

“Sort them out” his habits said as with pen in hand
He wrote fine script upon the page to blend archaic with new
Then sip the brew as descriptions grew grotesquely raw
To be scratched out of drafted tome and softened
With terms vague

“ To close my eyes and return” his heart sighed
To once upon a time when the princess eyed a bard
Unsettling the hymns he would sing of piety and grace
As he eyed the lace beneath her gown and knew
Underneath it all her chest rose and fell with breath
Drawn not to threaten buttons close or in offer of a view
As comes in candle light and the moan of pleasure spent

“I must pause” he spoke to the shadowed room
And looked upon the hearth at embers fallen from the log
As she came back to him once more
And he felt for just a little while the warmth of then

“Once upon a time, in a land far away” he began
as the pen again slipped over white
“There was a young princess with great beauty
Who was courted by a frog”

He smiled to no one
As he snatched quickly at a passing moth

bel1e
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1 posted 2010-09-16 07:36 AM

~~~~the Princess & the Frog~~~~~

~~your words always warm me, Chief~~~

~adore this
& you~~~

xoxoxox

Cpat Hair

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2 posted 2010-09-16 07:50 AM

thank you Belle....
always appreciate your kindness ma'am.

Eusta B. Mae
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3 posted 2010-09-16 08:24 AM

This series is absolutly scrumptious! ebm

Cpat Hair

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4 posted 2010-09-16 08:32 AM

EBM.. thank you ma'am.. glad you find them enjoyable..

Amaryllis
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5 posted 2010-09-16 10:02 AM

Just wonderful... love the closing line... great writing, as usual!
~Amaryllis

Dark Stranger
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6 posted 2010-09-16 11:50 AM

cool stuff guy...always a grin to read your tea leaves

Martie

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7 posted 2010-09-16 06:05 PM

Cpat...for a minute I thought you'd seen JM flitting by. You are an amazing story teller, good sir.

Klassy Lassy
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8 posted 2010-09-17 02:07 AM

You have a series writines such as this? Oh, what have I been missing!

I have always loved the story of the princess and the frog... and can't help laughing at the twists and turns it takes in the retelling. This is delightful. But he'd better beware as supper time approaches. heheh.

Cpat Hair

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9 posted 2010-09-17 07:04 AM

Amaryllis
you're kind ma'am...
thank you

Cpat Hair

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10 posted 2010-09-17 07:05 AM

Dark ... glad you got a grin out of this

Cpat Hair

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11 posted 2010-09-17 07:06 AM

Martie

Had I seen JM flitting by...I would indeed have tried to grab her and drag her back here...

thank you for you kind words ma'am...

Cpat Hair

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12 posted 2010-09-17 07:07 AM

Klassy Lassy
Frog legs aren't bad if they don't jump out of the pan on you...

thanks for the look in

rwood
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13 posted 2010-09-17 07:09 AM

Your Grimms are wonderful to read. Your modern perspective gives new wings to the airs of folklore. Highly enjoyable series.

Always,
reg

Cpat Hair

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14 posted 2010-09-17 07:10 AM

reg... ma'am... you're entirely too kind, but I do thank you for such nice words

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