Temporarily Shoeless
My mind is in a quandry and I don’t know what to do
about the most unfortunate loss of my new shoe.
I’ve retraced my footsteps and looked with hawk-like eye
and yet not any trace of it was I able to spy.
I find no consolation in the fact I still have one,
for dancing in a single shoe cannot be any fun.
The majority of those I know say to just forget it,
but they have not a notion of the way I came to get it.
I peep down through the curtains when I hear the doorbell ring,
and from my turret window, see the one who will be king
and in his hand he holds the shoe that is a perfect pairing
to the shoe that on one foot I happen to be wearing.
As I limp down the stairway, I hear my sister strain
to stuff her foot into the shoe, in spite of all her pain.
Then my other stepsister tries to do the same.
She offers to cut off her toes, but his majesty’s not game.
“Is there another sister?” he asks as I appear.
My stepmother says no but I step forward and say, “Here,
I have the other slipper,” and so the story goes
on with a happy ending, as everybody knows.
Word prompts today are hawk, quandry, majority, consolation and loss. Image by Ilina Ekaterina
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Fantastic! Great use of the prompts. Just wonderful!
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Sorta crazy. I’ve been on cold medication and that is my excuse… J
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Great poem and squeal, to a fantastical nursery rhyme.
BUT forget about him, my dear, just don’t waste your time~!
So if he is only pursuing his sick foot fetish just forget about him..
Nibbling on your toes is not the love that grows, so is progressing in vain
to the time when he, unfortunately comes to meet to late, the area of your brain.
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You know in the original Grimm’s Fairy Tale, the stepsister really did cut her toes off! They lived up to their name.
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Thanks for a good old-fashioned happy ending!
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LOL. Most enjoyable.
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Well hello, Ms Cinderella!
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Haha! A new take on the old story
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This was fun. I like your version of the story.
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wonderful poem. The shoe picture makes my feet hurt instantly….hate those super high spikes!
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To turn those prompts into that humorous retelling is quite brilliant.
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Thanks, Derrick..I’m quickly running out of plot lines here so have to steal a few.
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