Happily Ever After



"Happily ever after" is a farmer's fairy tale:
harvesting tears and laughter,
which ever may avail.
"Happily ever after" is a psychic's platitude.
Good fortune or disaster
is often attitude.
"Happily ever after" is a visionary's scheme
Bliss is a non sequitur:
contradictory dream.
"Happily ever after" is an illusionist's act.
A knavery admixture:
dupery to the fact.
"Happily ever after" is a lover's fantasy.
Distortions in caricature:
a faulty heresy.
"Happily ever after" for many has come and gone.
Of kismet each is master:
a consequential spawn.
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Submitted on January 13, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABACBCDBDEBEFBFGBH
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 536
Words 88
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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