Notes About The Poem
Some Fairytales Poetry Contest
Sponsor Natasha L Scragg
Honorable Mention
The Gypsy Queen, Some Fairytale
Seeks beauty, a prince now age to marry
She in a fruit tree wants bread or fare thee
It happened again
another maiden
Although he had no bread for m’lady
Gypsy with cart, plan wins the maiden back
Witch hidden, with a hairpin she’ll attack
“a golden coin for that bread”
Mishaps all gone, and instead
Prince and maiden married and hit the sack
At times the prince sings happy at times not
King and gardener noticed, worry they ought
The gypsy’s daughter, the witch
hidden in the cart, would switch
The beautiful maiden she was they thought
The prince stumped, “Señora, how dark you've become!"
"The sun has burnt my skin," the witch answered numb
She'd stuck a pin in the hair
of the real maiden’s so fair,
turned into a dove, to the witch she’d succumb
A dove out of the azure sky, flew by
Asked the gardener if the prince was alright
The gardener then told the prince
An amigo ever since
The dove told the prince what happened that night
The prince fell for the little dove trade-in
Yet to discover the secret hairpin
Stroking her, she never fled
When felt the pin in her head
Jerked it out, the dove changed back, a maiden
The prince told the king of maiden's ill fate
The king heard both singing, became irate
The gypsy witch is a fake
and she’ll be burned at the stake!
So the prince married his maiden upgrade
~ and lived happily ever after amigos!
For CINCO DE MAYO
5/5/26
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