Can
you spin
straw
into gold,
straw
into gold, a boast
becomes
a lie, a lie
becomes
a request,
becomes
a promise,
becomes
an agony
the
tales we spin
golden
the
straw we spin
golden,
or not
watching
as he spins
madly,
the wheel turning,
a
game of roulette played
and
forgotten until
the
croupier demands his due
unless
the name is forthcoming
unless
the name is known and spoken
speaking
the name dispels enchantment
naming
the one breaks the hold
just
a name, spinning fool’s gold
back
to straw
TweetspeakPoetry this week has a poetry prompt: take a fairy tale, and write a poem from
the perspective of one of the characters. If you know this story, can you guess
which character’s perspective I used?
Illustration of Rumpelstiltskin by
Walter Crane for the 1886 edition of Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm.
