by Granny Janny
Member since:
February 16, 2006

Go Ask Alice When She's Ten Feet Tall, Mindful Poetry's Form-of-the-Month for September (Tyburn)

September 18, 2012 05:24 PM UTC
views: 0 | 12 people recommend this | comments: 25

Go Ask Alice


a pill

can thrill

or kill

you will

thrill with one pill or lie still in death

will it kill you or just take your breath?

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Comments: 25

Pam Brittain Sep 18, 2012, 5:26pm UTC
Jan, this is a great piece.
Stirling D. Sep 18, 2012, 5:40pm UTC
Your illustrations are always so perfect. This is a nice little gruesome pre-Halloween treat.
J. Reid Sep 18, 2012, 5:52pm UTC
Smiles...

Thank you for submitting to: Not Gathering Dust!
Janet "Jax" B. Sep 18, 2012, 9:28pm UTC
It's very creepy....but I like it.
JOHN BECK Sep 18, 2012, 9:36pm UTC
Forget complying with the form--this is fun, Jan.
Veronica Hosking Sep 18, 2012, 9:39pm UTC
Love it! This was fun to read.
Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Sep 18, 2012, 11:29pm UTC
A departure from the guidelines is essential to tell this cautionary tale.

Featured at Mindful Poetry.
Granny Janny Sep 19, 2012, 1:57am UTC
Thanks, Susan. The poem wrote itself.
elizabeth evans Sep 20, 2012, 7:23pm UTC
That's what happens when pills run loose.
Karen E. Sep 19, 2012, 1:10am UTC
Unique!
Irina Dimitric Sep 19, 2012, 3:20am UTC
Forget the form, this is a great poem.
Bernard C. Sep 19, 2012, 3:59am UTC
There would be a warning - that you shouldn't take pills you know nothing about :-) Nice write - anything other than vitamin supplemental is strictly down to medication :-))


Thanks for sharing and submitting to
The Surreal Circus.
A. F. Stewart Sep 19, 2012, 8:11am UTC
A terrific poem.
To pill or not to pill, that is the thrilling, killing question.
elizabeth evans Sep 20, 2012, 7:24pm UTC
....and if you didn't take your pills, Mag, I would be sending you back to Oz in an urn.
Like a genie in a bottle ... enchanted dust, no less.
Granny Janny Oct 6, 2012, 9:16pm UTC
You enchant in every rant...both of you!
KittyKutabare aka Candy Pole Sep 19, 2012, 9:01am UTC
fascinating!~
KittyKutabare aka Candy Pole Sep 19, 2012, 9:02am UTC
Thanks for sharing in the Triple Name Club.
Dennis Gilman Sep 19, 2012, 9:39am UTC
Does not appear to be a true Tyburn, but I love it.

Beserol tablets prescribed for my wife almost killed her.
Granny Janny Sep 19, 2012, 3:29pm UTC
Yikes!
Betty S. Sep 20, 2012, 3:34pm UTC
Kinda scary!
Barbary C. Oct 6, 2012, 2:29pm UTC
Is that Alice taking growth hormones again!!!
Granny Janny Oct 6, 2012, 9:17pm UTC
Nah...it's just Jan trying to write in form and failing...but still having fun.
Sheila Deeth Oct 12, 2012, 4:39pm UTC
Very effective

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