Miss Jekyll Or Miss Hyde

Most people who meet her, consider her charming
But she has ghoulish traits, they’d find quite alarming
With her gleaming blonde tresses and sparkling blue eyes
Her cherubic features are just a disguise
For although she emits a celestial aura,
Angelic pastimes, quite simply, abhor her
Where other girls play with their ‘Barbie’ dolls
She has mystic wars with her hideous Trolls

Her peers, read Enid Blyton in Bed
She takes Stephen King, with his tales of the dead
And, when it comes to the movies she’s seen
A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hallow’een,
Poltergiest, Psycho, The Thing, The Blob too
These are just to name but a few
There’s nothing she likes more than a good ‘chiller’
With ghosts, ghouls and monsters, or psychotic killers

She watches the Grand Prix, to watch the cars crash 
She loves to see the players fouled at a soccer match,
Ice skaters, she wills to fall flat on their faces
And athletes, when running, to trip on their laces
Yet, despite her having such a sick and perverse mind
She’s loving and caring, gentle, sensitive, kind
Unselfish and thoughtful, advanced for her ten years
Who on watching Disney films, has been known to shed a tear

Although she won’t admit to it, it’s only herself, she fools
And I wouldn’t change one inch of her, my ‘angelic’ little ghoul.


©  Janette Fisher – April 1995
This poem was written 15 years ago when my youngest was 10 - she hasn't changed a bit!!!!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010



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Date: 4/16/2010 3:54:00 PM
Excellent write here, Janette ... I've been the same way all my life ... smile ... love movies like Heat and Seven but fancy myself a pacifist ... LOL
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Date: 4/10/2010 11:44:00 AM
Janette, she sounds a real scream > i bet she's a little princess >> James
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Date: 4/9/2010 11:56:00 AM
Fear not, Janette, your daughter might be the next Stephen King! You description of Amanda reminds me of Darlene on the Roseanne TV series. She turned out to be an extraordinarily bright and talented writer! Wonderful poem! Love, Carolyn
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