5. Poetry

A Lesson in Brevity

Posted by ElshaHawk on January 28, 2021

A Rehearsal in Fairy land by Richard Doyle

Young fairy princess

barely can fly

sings to the birds

who gather close by

Delighted, she timbres

trills, and warbles

the birds stop eating

closed beaks and bills

Nestlings starve

their parents entranced

young princess learns

price of her gift to enchant

Power and responsibility

like harmony to melody

from happiness a sorrow

now limits her singing spree

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Elsha Hawk is a center-brained, imaginative, pragmatist who errs on the side of optimism. She is a writer, mom, teacher, wife, and go-getter. She has dabbled in ebooks, researched marketing and promotion of herself, joined social media, and written both solo and with a co-author Eddie-Joe Young. She won the short story contest, "Write to Win", in Writer's Journal and was published in the Nov/Dec 2009 issue. She also published a short story in Eclectic Flash in the April 2010 issue. View all posts by ElshaHawk