Never After Series: Roan Riders (#2)

It’s time Once more

to peek through door,

Upon the Time that Wasn’t–

at birds & blokes

* and Fairy Folks *

and one-off baker’s dozen.

The ace in hole,

and jolly troll,

that weren’t at royal Foxtrot,

the Bean unbought,

the Big unsought,

the ungrown, Giant dicot.

Yes, little known

to folklore fans,

was Beanstalk brother, Rodney,

whose allergies

to beans and bees,

kiboshed bean-based botany.

–Going on→

to bang a gong,

offered up no remedy,

years too soon!

to be Gong Goon,

for game show in the seventies.

No worse a curse,

than hex that vexed,

Sleeping Beauty’s sister,

a walking napper,

she failed to trap her–

princess self a mister.

It scarcely helped

her slumb’ring trail,

led her to the Bottle,

since Genie in it,

made head spin, and

worsened wiped-out wobble.

And once without,

what Genie wouldn’t,

rise to the occasion?

And this Mage

was filled with rage,

of cabin-sick persuasion,

and so failed

to honor bail

3 wishes precontracted

(a Genius snub,

since she had rubbed,

his lamp as he’d exacted.)

So many more!

were hit by door–

–of Once upon a Time.

Missing mark,

unbooked on Arc,

pared pairs I’ll share in rhyme,

Until such Time

of Never Was,

these Fairies must subsist,

* near the top *

but still just not,

a “plus one” on the List.

 
 
(1) Once Upon a Different Time

(2) Roan Riders

(3) Pot-Tea Humor

(4) Happily Ever After-Party

(5) My Fair Cat Ladies

(6) Hey Diddle Didn’t

(7) Pie in the Sky