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The Goodbye Road


"The Goodbye Road"



Glass slippers 
cut roads clean 
like diamonds
they dance through the storm
and Yellow is just a colour
ribbon tied around a tree

never Gold 

Monkeys fly
flattering mongrels
who walk the lonely roads
always on their own 
with soft feathered 'friends',
soap sudded soupy vowels

and horny (backed) toads

Christmas 
comes and goes
Unicorns are ridden 
until their jewels 'n horns 'n hearts are torn
Everything in a suspended world 
glows sunset in mystical rose

The last poem you wrote
is always the last ode

Poems drip off a tongue 
whispering 
to the vast global empty zone
like blood slides
down a sword
like dropping crumbs 

to the silent 
dog whistles 
and absent jingle bells
baptised slowly by 
too much brandy 
egg nog whiskered

licking Life's 
luscious lips
mistletoe led
snookered 
ray bans on
8 ball holy holed

Road Home



(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
Christmas/New Years
gvlm




“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Sara Bareilles”
https://youtu.be/5vtguBvC-zk







"’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
      And the mome raths outgrabe."

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.








"Permanently on the "Naughty" List"/Anonymous





....and I haven't even started making the Rum Balls yet...
regards, 
somewhere,
lost in OZ.



yeah, I know, you ALL love me. Hard not to. x













LYRICS/ Goodbye Yellowbrick Road/Elton John
https://genius.com/Elton-john-goodbye-yellow-brick-road-lyrics

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Lady Labyrinth

Date: 12/17/2020 3:15:00 AM

MAGIC. Christmas Magic. x

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
Date: 1/15/2021 5:28:00 PM

"I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways"...

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
Date: 1/15/2021 5:27:00 PM

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_big_blues_and_baptismal_alice_1053786

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 12/17/2020 2:32:00 AM

So cool those lyrics. Love them. "Maybe you'll get a replacement There's plenty like me to be found Mongrels who ain't got a penny Sniffing for tidbits like you On the ground....I've finally decided my future lies Beyond the yellow brick road..." The whole song, is ....hmmm, meaningful.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 12/17/2020 2:35:00 AM

London. New York. Rome. Paris...so far that road extends - way past and outside of the Emerald City. x

Ts Poetry

Date: 12/16/2020 11:37:00 AM

Home isn't always that far away

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 12/16/2020 3:57:00 PM

some might say, worlds away...

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 12/16/2020 3:56:00 PM

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/other_worlds_1249781

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 12/16/2020 2:33:00 AM

gvlm. merry christmas. 2020.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 12/17/2020 2:06:00 AM

https://freakinoutjerry.com/ - "The weak will attempt to censor your voice. The strong will stand, inspire and project with you. The fearful will try to tame you. The intrepid will build fires with you. The evolved person will understand your need to create and be imaginative, in whatever way your soul speaks. If you're being true to yourself, then you are being authentic. Whether or not those words you write are fiction or real, those thoughts, those feelings and emotions being expressed are coming from someplace inside the recesses of your mind, heart and soul. You are an artist, a creator, a writer, a poet. And that is strip naked soul baring authenticity in its purest form."

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 12/16/2020 4:08:00 PM

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/footprints_1201795

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 12/16/2020 2:31:00 AM

Silver Shoes -v- Red Shoes. Diamonds -v- Rubies.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 12/16/2020 2:32:00 AM

The Wizard of Oz. In the original book by L. Frank Baum, Dorothy's magic slippers are silver; for the Technicolor movie, they were changed to ruby red to show up more vividly against the yellow-brick road.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 12/16/2020 2:05:00 AM

In the movie, Dorothy and her friends follow the yellow brick road in search of the magical Wizard of Oz, only to find they had what they were looking for all along. The "moral" is to go get your heart's desire. But be prepared for obstacles. Plus, it helps to have good reliable friends to support your quest.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 12/16/2020 2:23:00 AM

The predominant theme of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is self-sufficiency. The Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion all seek external magic to give them qualities they already possess but fail to recognize. When the travelers come to a wide ditch (chapter seven), the Cowardly Lion volunteers to try jumping over it. If he can make it, he reasons, he can carry each of his friends across safely. Discussing the possibility of falling into the ditch, the Cowardly Lion responds, “‘I am terribly afraid of falling, myself. . . but I suppose there is nothing to do but try it.’” The Lion does not realize that courage is acting despite fear, not acting in the absence of fear.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 12/16/2020 2:19:00 AM

In a scene at the end of chapter six, the reader sees both the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow demonstrating the very qualities they feel they are lacking. The Tin Woodman accidentally steps on a beetle and begins to weep. When his tears rust his jaw shut, no one is able to figure out what his gestures for the oil can mean except for the Scarecrow, who immediately loosens the Tin Woodman’s jaws with the oil. This scene shows how emotional the Tin Woodman is and how quick thinking the Scarecrow is. A more mature reader can then recognize that with the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman, the writer - Baum, is using irony to portray the theme of selfsufficiency.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 12/16/2020 2:18:00 AM

Dorothy’s situation is somewhat different because she needs a magical object (the silver shoes) to help her get back home to Kansas. Still, she fails to understand that she has had what she needs all along while continuing to seek it from others. Another important point about the silver shoes is that Dorothy earned them by killing the Wicked Witch of the East. While she did so unintentionally, her actions resulted in the freedom of the Munchkins, which in turn resulted in her being given the magical shoes that will allow her to get home. She was not given a way home simply because she asked for one; she was given a way home because she improved the lives of the Munchkins. Dorothy’s resolve and decisiveness throughout the book also attest to her self-sufficiency. She is independent and determined, and these qualities ultimately enable her to get back home. Rather than resign herself to life in a strange land; she refuses to give up on the idea that there is a way for her to get home.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 12/16/2020 2:17:00 AM

The struggle between good and evil is evident throughout The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. There are two good witches and two wicked witches. The wicked witches are unable to protect themselves against Dorothy, who is so good that she feels remorse at killing them. To make the good/evil dichotomy perfectly clear to young readers, Baum places the good witches in the north and the south, and the wicked witches in the east and the west. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, good always triumphs over evil, and evil respects the power of good. The Witch of the North gives Dorothy a kiss on the forehead, and this kiss protects her from harm by the Wicked Witch of the West. When the Winged Monkeys are sent to destroy Dorothy and her friends, one of them positions himself to attack her but sees the kiss. He tells the others, “‘We dare not harm this little girl. . . for she is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil.’”

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 12/16/2020 2:17:00 AM

The writer - Baum, also demonstrates that there are cases in which a person is not entirely good or evil, as in the character of the Wizard of Oz. As the Wizard admits to Dorothy, he is not a bad man, just a bad wizard. Although Dorothy deeply disapproves of his willingness to deceive people, she forgives him because she realizes that he is not truly evil. Baum teaches young readers that it is not possible to label real people good or evil because in reality, everybody has a little of both in them. Let me squash that for you: revert Lewis Carroll, through the looking glass and what Alice found. Do your due diligence, you'll make a thorough job of it, I'm sure. Facts and evidence, would stand strong in a court of law. "The Lewis Trap". Regards, Your mother (from Hell or Heaven, take your pick). Christmas 2020.:) You'll thank me more than likely when I'm dead. x ;)

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 12/16/2020 12:09:00 AM

Emerald City. Sydney. David Williamson. x Merry Christmas. gvlm, Love your mother.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 12/15/2020 11:10:00 PM

....and I haven't even started making the Rum Balls yet....regards, somewhere lost in OZ.