A Half-Baked Nursery Rhyme

Cake under your pillow, you'll dream of your groom

A bite of some cake, you're too big for the room

Let them eat cake when they haven't the bread

Say the wrong thing and it's off with your head

A slice with the baby, you bring the next cake

Poor Gretel was put in an oven to bake

You can't have your cake and then eat it too
Be a sweet little girl, and they will eat you!

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Kerry's Wednesday Challenge, Magical Realism

Grinning Like a...

Alice in Wonderland by YukiValentine

Come back here, you frightful cat

You won't escape again

I'll soon catch you, you tricky rat

and you'll be sorry then!

You say you want to help me

but then get me in to trouble

and instead of being remorseful

you go off and make it double!

I've never seen a cat like you

who grins so big and wide

and no one will believe you're true

because you like to hide.

A cat without a smile

is nothing very strange

but a smile without a cat

is really quite deranged!

So before you disappear this time

I've got your stripey tail

I want you to confess your crime

before you fade to pale.

And if you do not like that

I'll apply a little pressure

Then while you're screeching like a cat

I'll grin just like a Cheshire!

submitted for Midnight Snack, 008, at Poets United

and Poetic Bloomings #26, Life's a Little Weird

For Rabbit

In a field of wheat I search for

you, my friend

You are a cagey creature

The minute I think

I have a grasp of you, you

disappear

only to emerge, the tip of your ear

waving from behind a stalk of wheat

saying, "Follow me!" or

"Don't. I don't much care."

I always follow

Like Alice's White Rabbit, I

follow you

and we play in your magical

strange

sad

funny

beautiful Wonderland; then

you slip away

and I learn how

to make some wonders myself

But don't you ever think

that I've forgotten you, my friend

I've come to this field of wheat

looking for that jaunty ear

waiting for you to

come home.

submitted for Bluebell Books, Short Story Slam, Week 8