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Waking Beauty

September 29, 2011
By Rachel-S BRONZE, Saint Charles, Missouri
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Rachel-S BRONZE, Saint Charles, Missouri
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Favorite Quote:
"Yield for nothing, Chase the Morning."

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Waking Up
I see no prince before me
Waking me with his kiss
Instead I see my plain, white ceiling
I do not step out of a beautiful glass coffin
No instead I (somehow) manage to drag myself out of bed
I hear no birdsong with which I could sing along
Instead I hear the blaring of my alarm clock
It seems the role models of my childhood
Have given me false expectations

The author's comments:
I actually wrote this for a class assignment. We had to write with in the present, but contain allusions to fairy tales.
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Rachel-S BRONZE said...
on Oct. 25 2011 at 8:53 pm
Rachel-S BRONZE, Saint Charles, Missouri
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Favorite Quote:
"Yield for nothing, Chase the Morning."

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Thanks for the feedback! I'll definately check your poems out!
Lexie96 GOLD said...
on Oct. 25 2011 at 7:36 pm
Lexie96 GOLD, Havana, Illinois
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Now Cinderella don't you go to sleep, it's such a bitter form of refuge, oh don't you know the kingdom's under siege, and everbody needs you. - The Killers

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I like the overall contents of the poem, but I think I would have used a word like pretenses or something along those lines for the end... but that's just me personally. Think that maybe you could check out my poem sometime?