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Cinderella Bell of the Banquet Hall and Glitter Ball

Pray masquerading hidden beauty, Sweet innocent Princess Cinderella She of midnight pumpkin slipper glass For whom the ball bell's Be spared your humble prince his blushes of asking for your hand and pleasure of your company And so to please accompany me into the banquet hall for the remainder on this most auspicious summer evening His Majesty quite inexorably is taken with your strength and presence as yee his confidence you have shaken And he wishes to if nothing else discover the name of said fair maiden woven into that bespoken silken dress that grace herself doth silhouette such blinding figure of the number eight If this be my kingdom i am over which to reign then surely i duty bound as said king should wish the fairest princess in all the lands under my domain to take and marry as my Queen and mother bare she and i a rightful heir to follow the line of succession For if the price of royal cross to bare is duty before self then let me please this 1 concession have Let me please for marry love and get to choose she that which doth my heart desires with a wanten passion worthy of an endearing romantic fairytale ending where the protagonists end up growing old together gracefully So come the when the clock after the bewitching hour of midnight 12 o'clock strike shall you not be with a but slipper left to seek you out once more Rather we dispense with pleasantries and be not another further single we a second lost just incase either of you and i be in both in a state of wistful dreaming Only to be told my unconscious subliminal Julliet was in reality to be in fact an unassuming passing stranger terminal cancer patient who choose to spend her final moments reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Julliet to me whilst i was in my coma So when in fact or if indeed eventually i was to awake the time i lost could be permeated by an empathetic soul by the voice of an angel Falling victim only to be branded with the mark by one of life's cruelest of intentions better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

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Date: 8/21/2020 9:15:00 AM
This is an extraordinary poem, - such unimaginable talent Christopher , you took a fairy tale and turned it into a masterpiece worthy of POTD - I agree with Lady Labyrinth. And how true, 'better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all' Simply awesome, Blessings, Jenn.
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Christopher Flaherty
Date: 8/21/2020 2:17:00 PM
Wow Jennifer Your comments leave me at a loss for words and blushing with pride and glee. Thank you very much i am ever so obliged and eternally grateful
Date: 8/18/2020 3:10:00 PM
"Let me please for marry love and get to choose she that which doth my heart desires with a wanten passion worthy of an endearing romantic fairytale ending where the protagonists end up growing old together gracefully " This is why faerie tales work, because this is what everyone wants - even the ones who deny it. Well penned my frikend. Well penned!
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Date: 8/17/2020 5:10:00 PM
a true Shakespearean tragedy - i wasn't expecting the twists and turns and the unexpected ending, very well penned Christopher:-) hugs Jan xx
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Christopher Flaherty
Date: 8/18/2020 3:51:00 PM
Went through pages 10 to 20 but i couldn't find your poem Jan. What number page is it on ?
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Jan Allison
Date: 8/18/2020 1:14:00 PM
I wrote a poem called 'the belle of the ball' I would love you to read it, its one of my favourite early poem where i tried so hard with the imagery and so so different from your theme:-)
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Christopher Flaherty
Date: 8/17/2020 5:19:00 PM
Cheers glad to see you back with and amongst us and in form once again my fair lady Hugs x
Date: 8/14/2020 2:10:00 PM
Very slick Shakespearean poetic tone and mood well thought out, some of your best work ending is fantastic as who knows what goes through a persons mind in a persistent comatose state, if indeed anything at all, I wrote one myself “apertures of agony”about a astrophysicist on his deathbed hallucinating pumped full of morphine imagining a auroral show and gamma ray bursts thinks the nurses can see it and pray in fear when in fact they pray for him, if you get a chance will you check it out cheers David
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Christopher Flaherty
Date: 8/14/2020 2:16:00 PM
Cheers David praise indeed thank you very much once again kind sir. On route to check out your poem now
Date: 8/14/2020 2:05:00 PM
tingaling tingaling....I have answered the call... this is a romantic departure from the norm for the esteemed writer, O'Flaherty...I shall have to sharpen my diamond slippers to etch a message on your .... wall. I love it. This line is part of the fairytale that rings truthfully, "with a wanten passion worthy of an endearing romantic fairytale ending where the protagonists end up growing old together gracefully..." whether achievable or not. Yet to be seen. Surely, this one, is worthy of POTD. x
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Christopher Flaherty
Date: 8/14/2020 2:29:00 PM
Cheers Leanne my learned friend and esteemed confident . You are always a source of inspiration and encouragement whos comments i value and poems inspire me. So glad you liked it as i wrote it after reading your poem Ta bud xox
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 8/14/2020 2:07:00 PM
"better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all...."

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