This is a little ditty I thought up for my poetry class, taking the P.O.V. of the Cheshire Cat and what he thought of Alice after she departed from Wonderland.
Disclaimer: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking-Glass and all characters are accredited to Lewis Carroll.
Journeynotes
By Saoirse The Irish Colleen
Edited by Dr. Lois Jaffe
Slowly vanishing paws
Gentle, smiling jaws
The day feels good enough
Perhaps I should bark.
I'll offer to take tea with the mad
Surely when she has crossed
The Eighth Square
She's been had.
Put me in a little deal-box
But my grin will never fade
I hope you've sampled the sandwiches
Blotting-paper pudding piping-hot
Introduce yourself to the mutton
Then dream a dream of a thousand pounds
But are we things of the Red King's dream?
Watching you sail away waving scented rushes
Her majesty's flag
Tumbling down from the wall
Look- the prize- a golden crown!
Take good advice: put your lips to mine
Drink Me
Shoes and ships and sealing-wax
Whether pigs could fly
Some plum-cake, ham sandwiches, and hay
Did you steal the pepper-tarts?
Twinkle, twinkle little bat
Come fly down the brick wall
Oh, Tiger Lily, sing Golden Afternoon
Not fun anymore, majesty?
The two-step with the Griffin
Lions and Unicorns, did they fight?
The Queen locked them up
You only dreamed us, after all.