And Then There Was None All

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And then there was none

By Giv-O-lee

Once upon a time

In a land far awaythere lived a young maiden

of no name and no prey.

Her fingers where blessedand she marveled in clay:

oh all sorts of trinketsthat twinkled and played.

The people where owed

but her eyes always ailedover miss perfect details

and crook-ed display.

A prince came alongand swept her away,

to master her craft,and for him to obey.

Oh lady of clay

Alone in her tower,young maiden of neigh

inspected her potsin an air of dismay.

For what if he tells her,

and what if he sees,how poor are the curves,

how dump are the seeds?

Oh lady of sleaze

Her pots where all evenand yet she had told

her inner critics


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so harsh and so bold:Forgive me my cracks

and my inner turmoilI promise Ill toile

and amend and recoil!

She did nothing elseand her spirits where falling

from brushing and smoothingand boiling and toiling.

The sparks started twiddling

the twinkles collapsedshe tried to maintain them

but couldnt, alas

Belief started fading

she couldnt pretend,

how soar was her throathow full of disdain.

Oh lady of pain

For once in a whilethe prince would appear,

demanding her presenceand drawing her near.

She brewed him some broth

did that wear off her charm?Or was it her pots, or where there her arms?

a blink of an eye, a tilt of the head?That drove him away, and left her a dead?

The tower grew cold and grey and abandoned

She could not resist the voices below.

Unwittingly giddy she followed him through

in a last frightful effort to seek and bestowhis old charming presence and promises too


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And than there was none.No light and no sound.

The lady had fallen from grace.She laid there for ever

in fear of admittinghow far was the fall

how high and how tall

The lady of so many wishes

*Crowns picking eyes

tagging, bragging, digging, rigginggown, hair, thighs, cheeks

warmth, breath, heart, bit,cranking, braking, bruising, shaking

standing still

*

Blind slopes of grounda curve

a mound

where crowns prefer to sit,would stay untouched

unproved, unmatchedunloved, un-launched

uneven

*From the cracks sprang the power to hunt

*Slowly did the huntress came

and touched

the mound of ground unbound

she waved the birdsand hunched


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she pushed her handsall through the ground

and whispered

ahh

the sound of whichhad sprang

the earth,the sun,

the warmth below,

the one

one eyed, one way, one namedfor whom the power to give birth

to sparks of thousand worlds.

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