haiga--Lorraine Renaud
still warm in our young love he waits while i retrieve my sandals
--gillena cox
When evening came, Cinderella... wished to leave, and the king's son was anxious to go with her, but she escaped from him so quickly that he could not follow her. The king's son, however, had employed a ruse, and had caused the whole staircase to be smeared with pitch, and there, when she ran down, had the maiden's left slipper remained stuck. The king's son picked it up, and it was small and dainty...[Aschenputtel (Cinderella)by the Brothers Grimm]
continuing the Cinderella Syndrome or What every girl should have; well!!! at least once in her lifetime, anyways...in haiku/haibun style throughout the month of August; e-mail me or add your contributions at comments; to beincluded in the day's post
WOw lol I love it, beautiful as always Gillena ;)
ReplyDeleteI think its the first time I am reading a eromantica from you, Gillena...Nice :)
ReplyDeleteLorraine's -- its last year's, I remember the day...nice haiga...except Cindrella was rushing back to her baggage of domestic burden, perhaps :)
wishes,
devika
You know what -- of all that fairy tale...I loved to read the part she does the domestic chores...the pucca feminine self in me; I love to do it myself; may be thats why...the time i get my mind free for myself :)
ReplyDeletewishes,
devika
Lorraine, Devika, thanks for dropping in;
ReplyDeleteyou know the saying 'If the shoe fits...'
well sometimes, like in the case of Lorraine's haiga persona we all like to let go of all the ascribed responsibilities, and just be, even for that fleeting haiku instance a carefree persona;
but Devika; in the case of Cinderella, personally, i beleive she wasn't rushing back to her domestics; i think she had her dreams, but she was sensible enough to acknowledge the constraints of her life situation at that time; so she had to leave; some of the story versions had her leaving two nights on time; to my mind, she knew this was the last night of the ball she would leave; but not without her feminine persona, her hidden siren, inciting her prince to pursue her,
much love
gillena
The fact that Cinderella in open to any number of interpretaions is the inetersting aspect of the fairy tale, as I see it (though I am not very comfortably convinced with some of them, from a personal viewpoint)
ReplyDeletebtw, I don't know about such a siren ;)....and if that works, modern Cinderalla aspirants must be reading Dahl's poem of y'day I guess! ha :)
wishes,
devika
Devika yes there are many many variants but one good thing the main themes remain, that of oppression, dreams, triumph, and a happy ending
ReplyDeletemuch love
gillena
It's interesting the different versions of the tale, each with a slightly different detail.
ReplyDeleteAdelaide
Adelaide, Devika, Lorraine; thanks for dropping in
ReplyDeletemuch love
gillena