NPM 2019 Day 11: Mirror

I have a great fondness for poems related to fairy tales. Here's a poem I wrote using Eve Merriam's poem "Apple" as a mentor text. The last stanza isn't as punchy as Merriam's, but I'm still working on this one.

Apple by Eve Merriam Apple, sweet apple, what do you hide? Wormy and squirmy, rotten inside. Apple, sweet apple, so shiny and red, taste it, don't waste it, come and be fed. Delicious, malicious; one bite and you're dead.

Mirror Mirror, dear mirror, what do you see? Choose now the fairest, let it be me. Mirror, wise mirror, voice so compelling, look into the future, my beauty foretelling. Mirror poor mirror, your future I see. If I’m not the fairest then shattered you’ll be. Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2019. All rights reserved.

Happy Thursday all. See you tomorrow for another original poem.