THE MAGUK WELL

 

Pennies granting wishes

Fell inside this magic well

Man repented

Sins changed to goodwill

And good wishes

Evil to love hence

Meanness to goodness

Greedy to generous spirits as well

Far from further

Further away from farther

 Rough hewn hedges

And coal tar wedges

The kingdom lay in a hemisphere divided

Apart from earth

Full of tainted sin and martyrdom

Yet stood apart from all rest

Material things

Hidden inside a twisty and snaky path

Upon a strange hill

Inside a hidden strange Magic Well

Called MAGUK

Furthermore further thus apart

It wedged and divided

Earth and

The earth’s crust

Upon a grassy knoll and hilly tussock

Stood hollow magnificent strange MAGUK WELL

Downtrodden though

Firmly built with stones, mortar and cement

 

A well in which everything sank

Woes, pleasures

Trinkets, toys

Dogs with clavicle collar bones and haunting treasure maps on their backs

Cats with dreamy fishes and delicious milk saucers on their coats

Bulls, cocks, hens

 Mourning, Laughing, Diamond doves

 Fan tailed, crested, green, crowned pigeons

Columbidae of every kind and types

As well pigeon chested, v-shaped

Herculean Samson’s, Goliath’s

Gargantuan giants, dwarfs

 Pygmies as well

Hour glass divas, Cardboard Tarzans

Fiction with fantasy into it fell

Specs of fairy dust, atoms, molecules

Airy-fairies, wishy-washy elves, goblins

 Pixies, magical genies

Fairy sparklers, fire crackers

Such stupendous fire works

Gargoyles and demons

Camels, pear trees, oxen

 Clocks, lamps, boxes

Seals and walruses

Even forbidden apple tree

The cursed as well blessed indeed all fell

Angels, cherubs, witches and sorcerers

Into the well threw and flung themselves

Like a Pandora’s Box

Opened one day

The MAGUK well

Its doors

At one’s own free will

And one’s own peril

Fell again everyone

Dancers, clowns, ballerinas, actors

 Along with harlequins, gymnasts, buffoons

Panjandrums, vagabonds, beggars

Who yearned for truth into its secret chasm

Strength and valour

Along with weak, timid as well fickle men

Steel portcullises, canyons, doors, hinges

Screws, nails and bracts

Hammers, chisels, screw drivers

Pliers, tongs, pincers, drills and bellows

Fortresses, mountains, bridges, streams

Cathedrals even thimbles

Curtsy their sharp pointy needle friends

Flung heartily and soulfully

Whole and sound

Into MAGUK WELL!

 

One day a beautiful Princess

Named Alice

Purposely put her knees and ankles in shallow waters deep

Along with her Lil’ cat Dinah

Fell into the abysmal well

Purportedly just to see

What happened beneath the strange receptacle

A fathomless bucket

So many had drowned there indeed

Into a sea bed of glistening pearls

Buccaneers, Pirates

Kings, Princes

Queens, their valises

Vases with flowers

Trees with leafy bowers

Mermaids, castles

Fishes of the sea

Even ships with masts and hulls

Those viewing such things with their telescopes

And binoculars

Fell one by one

Into its deep abyss

 

Bleeping cars, aeroplanes with wings, runways

Helicopters with wind propellers

 Hover boards, hovercrafts

Skate boards, bicycles, unicycles

Bullock-carts, palki’s (palanquins), tongas

Togas, dhotis, kashtis, salwars

Robes, pin striped or collared gowns

Swirls, flounces, twirls, harem trousers

The Sari, kilts, tracht, Maasai, Herero

Sami, Gho costumes

Trains, stations, railway tracks

Even windmills, whistles, wind chimes

Chimneys, one legged weather vanes

Roof top scallops, tiles, shingles

Canals, reservoirs, tanks and dams

Plunged deep into it

Snorkelers with scuba diving suits

Satellites, astronauts, U.F.O’s, U.S.O’s

Submarines, fighter jets along with astronomers

Soldiers, sailors, captains, pilots, navy men

Marching drills in uniforms

Along with farriers, tinkers and tailors

 

Aliens with strange propellers

Tourists wearing Panama Hats

Mermen and fishy things

Oyster pearls, cockles of their hearts

Mollusc locks and Shelly bolts

Dived deep inside it

Raindrops, dew drops

Fell right into MAGUK WELL

Good knows whether they splashed

Along with it waves, mist, fog

Sugar cubes, salt and pepper shakers

Even sunshine rays

With winter

Freezing snowflakes!

Crystalline maize’s and labyrinths

Autumn, fall, spring, summer

Next season of rain and winter as well

Right into it they fell

 

Meadows, stones, rivers

Skies, seas, heavens

Stars, planets, meteorites and comets

 Horses with blinders

Strange chariots too

Cows, calf’s

Igloos, pyramids

Even Taj Mahal!

Prince of Wales museums

Madam Tussaud’s wax houses

 Art galleries and cinema halls

Statue of Liberty, Little Mermaid, Manneken Pis

Many popular bronze, copper or alloy statuettes

Camels, doe eyed deer’s

Elephants, hippos, rhinos

Lions, tigers, camels, giraffes

Animals in pairs like Noah’s ark

Octopuses, sea lions, platypuses, whales

Gargoyle geckoes or hissing snakes

Turpentine varnished doors

Domes, spires, tombs, sphinxes

Fairies with wands, eggs that didn’t shatter

One couldn’t hear the noise as they fell

Or even a splatter

Sea food platters, soups, high teas

 “Kaffeeklatsch’s”

Greeting ‘Guten Morgen‘‘und guten Abend‘

With tall, twisted, conical or long witchy hats

On the way whilst falling down

Sipping

 Cock tails, mock tails

Wines, whiskeys, Brandies

 Blue berry cordials

 Bailey’s Irish Cream, gins and tonics

Raising they jugs of frothy beers

A cheery toast of froth and whim

One by one odd and even

Minced beef, corn beef, chicken canapés

 Sardine, tuna tins

 Mayonnaise mustard tongue sandwiches

Marmalades and blocks of cheese

Bread sticks, cheese straws

Harlots and champions

Many princes too fell much before

Princess Alice fell

With her little cat

 

When by and by underneath

The strange silver lime tree that shaded

MAGUK WELL

Hid the well nicely

Inside its frosted leaves, branches

Pretty silver lime tree nutlets and weeping flowers

Came hopping by a pink rabbit with pink eyes

Following Princess Alice and little cat Dinah closely

Through grassy knolls, hilly tussocks

Bounded leaps and hops after cardinal fairy Alice

Amongst daisy buds, lilies, roses and chrysanthemums

That sprung everywhere he hopped

In hidden nooks inside crooked crannies

Sprouted blossoms along with weeds and thistles

Till all fell inside in clumps

Sinking into sands of time

With an hour glass, rocks and pebbles

Into a great big hole

Of strange MAGUK WELL

Whilst falling little pink rabbit

His pocket waist clock he held close by

In his pink chubby hands

Thence brought it up again

From his chained waist coat pocket

To check the time and date

Ticking leisurely away “Tick Tock Tick”

“I’m getting late!”

He remarked

“Now never again shall I return ‘UPITTY’ again

Let’s follow the leader

Princess Alice and Lil’ cat Dinah

‘DOWNITTY’ yonder

Thither into “MAGUK WELL”

Soon it claimed the rainbow

That went along with him

Along with its seven wondrous colours

Violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red

Plummeted now down deep deep deep under

Its glossy heavens

 

Princess Alice was curiouser

And curiouser

More curious than anyone she ever knew lived

Or even sweet Lil’ Dinah

Just to see what existed in splendour beyond

The deep black hole

In a funny dimension through

Seven realms she journeyed

Bliss, happiness, fortitude, justice

Honour, dignity and valour

Challenging her dark and twisted

Ravaging curls

Mops of her curly head and hairs on end

A virtue named

“RAW COURAGE”

Beautiful Princess Alice

Followed through curvy lanes

Shady glens, sheds

Twisted roots, shadowy cull de sacs

Meandering streams even steep precipices

The strange MAGUK WELL

invented

Even once sat on a unicycle with little Dinah

As it tilted…. she horned

With a bugle loudly

Till it swerved and down fell they into a little boat shell

Made of buffered wheat

 

For y’see the kingdom was full of magic

The sky lay below

The kingdom and sea up above

Of strange MAGUK WELL

Thence the boat of buffered wheat

That they fell into

Made little Dinah and Alice small and sweet

Like a timid dainty doll with a caterwauling little cat

After all like hammered corn

Big and tasty

Sailed they the little boat shell

Down the pond

In Alice’s own “Pool of tears”

Tears she cried on vile earth’s crust up above

Now every single drop formed an ocean deep

As the story here enlightens;

Alice’s weeping pond

Full of daffodils, lotuses

Lilies, primroses, honeysuckles

Sailing along Pink Bunny too

Turning small as they

For he truly belonged in that strange fairy land

Though had lived on the earth above its crust

For sometime not long before

Now wished he to return back with Alice and Lil’ Dinah

Back into MAGUK WELL

After all he was a magical creature y’see

In a battered boat of corn shell

Did sail they

 As his pink eyes

Gleaming turned glazed blue!

 

As Alice sailed rowing merrily

With little Dinah her cat

Using oars of celery stalks

And drumsticks as its anchor

Though it never sank

But hailed strong and mighty

The little golden cup

Boat made of battered corn

 Merrily sailing upon the pond

The pond of her own salty tears

Salty teardrops of the bitter world above

Before she jumped down into strange

MAGUK WELL

By her own free will

At her own peril!

Hoping it stopped tears…. she cried

That filled inside strange MAGUK WELL

Till finally pond of Alice’s Tears

Thence joined into a river

The river forked into a stream

Further forked into an ocean deep

Surrendered now sailing gusty winds

Of calming seascape, silvery waves caressing

The golden boat made of a hammered corn cup tenderly

Where alongside glistening sharp wedged rocks

Yielded glittering jewel like birds

Flocks of them I suppose

Like throngs of a crowd

Pearl crested doves billed

Onyx pigeons cooed

Ravenous moon stone ravens stewed and stirred

Storks with blue sapphire stockings lifted grey morning veils

Jaded emerald quails sailed along with

Peridot pelicans

Chalcedony cranes

Sang lilting melodies with raised beaks and uplifted necks

Sea gulls dazzling like lapis lazuli

Gilded eagles of gold also sang together

Along with ruby crested hummingbirds

“Quoah Quoah ….”

“Pheeeeeeeee pheeeeee”

Like angels in a choir

Shrill chorus notes, hums, chirps and whistles

In gleaming skies of dawn deep under

 MAGUK WELL

 

Further down the twisty bend

The curious moon below

Spilled the beans

And let Cheshire grinning cat

Out of the bag

A smile as wide as an inviting boat

Princess Alice was alarmed

As such a luminous thing below sailing

Down the sky

Princess Alice wondered what the time

Was

So she asked the Cheshire grinning cat of a boat

Sailing harmoniously

The sky down below

“Pray tell me little luminous grinning cat

I can’t afford to be late

What is the time and date?

Could you please tell me

‘Twas long before I let myself

Fall into the deep well

And now I guess I am getting very very late!”

Even her little Pet Dinah

Wondered how little cats with funny grins

Like the Cheshire puss

Appeared in skies below

O’ wasn’t it so very interesting

As she mewed and purred delightfully

To what she witnessed

 

The Cheshire grinning cat of course

Exclaimed

“O! Dear Princess Alice

You must visit Strange Mad Hatter

For that

Though he seems to forget the time and date

For here there are none of that

Only on clocks with faces like his

It shows wrong numbers all the time!

He made a pact with the Queen of Hearts

Or tarts you know

To tick her timely and untimely

Ticking of course his head and pendulum

To and fro

Blimey the raucous sea preciously

Silly as ‘tmay seem!”

Then laughing like a giggling

Chandelier of crystal drops

He disappeared in the sky below

 

Alice walked for several miles and miles

Till finally she saw a torch far far away

Said Princess Alice the Cardinal Fairy to herself

“I guess ‘tis face of a sea clock

Looks like a light house too

How will I ever reach the funny place?

Right in middle of sea!

Though it made no sense altogether

A clock face without a time or a date

Upon it

Princess Alice smiled to herself

With Lil’ cat Dinah

 

A sea otter gleefully

Offered to escort her

Said the friendly sea otter to Alice

“I guess you shall come along

To the party of Mad Hatter the timely

Untimely Clock of our light house”

 

On the way by the shore side ride Princess Alice

Glimpsed many wagging wiggling spectacular sights

Beholding the sea bed of glistening pearls

White frosted crabs

Icy sharks

Along with cabbage icicles and beetroot snowflakes

That the sky invented

From down below

With its cutter stencils

Blustered together with salty water and brine

As they marched

With tuxedo tailed penguins

Sword nosed fishes

And crabs with claws like pincers and hooks

Up above

The MAGUK WELL shore side

All reconciled at Mad Hatter’s tea party

 Ducks, Drakes

Partridges, swans

Guinea pigs, dodos

 Lories, turkeys, peacocks

Puffins, Pelicans, quails

Cormorants, Lovey-dovey Love Birds as well

“One for all, all for one”

They greeted

Even march hares, rats, weasels

And dormice!

Hoisted the flag

Called

‘Jabberwocky’

 

Inspired by its scroll

A script by Lewis Caroll

Princess Alice went on to make one herself

She named ‘Jabber Wickey’

 

“Hickerey fickerey swicckhey

Fishey swishey flummery

Swhiney slitherey flitterey

Flippery Twippery

Frippery frippet mermaids

‘Mouches’, crested waves ‘vooches’

In and out

Black ‘flipperies’ tails and ‘toueches’

Green lungs ‘gooueches’

Breathing gills ‘glinchees’

Whispering murmurs ‘mermouthers’

Vanishing hulls ‘teetoers’

Masts quite abnormally big

Like giant hosts of ghostly ships ‘shooufertrs’

In a tureen ‘turtooters’

Gigantic moons ‘mormooteers’

With Cheshire grins ‘groouters’

Grippery grinnery

Grinding mills ‘milloooters’

Sometimes dappling yolks ‘yelkeeters’

Sunny side up

And down

The ‘grangy’ grungy cliffs

Of mountains ‘moonoutoneeters’ and stones ‘spillentekeeters’

Like sinewy triceps ‘tricepititors’

The craggy shore side

Flithery flishery flimsery flimery flammery

White hands and pink paws

Waving to Gins ‘ginneries’

Beside wells of woven fantasy

Named “JABBER HICKEY”

Like a silver spoon

Dipped into a silver cup

Spooning pearls of moonlight

And salty tear drops

Called Moon stones of WISDOM!

To everyone’s delight

I hope one day

We all fall

As Humpty Dumpty did

And with a magnifying lens

See not a single flaw

A flawless kingdom

Where sea shines upright

It glossy tub

Whilst skies opened

Its curtain

Down below

The strange twisted stairway

Going endlessly inside a tureen

Dark and hollow

Hickey fickey swicckhey

Fishey swishey flummery

Swhiney slithery flitterey

Flippery Twippery

Frippery frippet mermaids

‘Mouches’, crested waves vouches

In and out

Black ‘flipperies’ tails and ‘toueches’

Green lungs ‘gooueches’

Breathing gills ‘glinchees’

Whispering murmurs ‘mermouthers’

Vanishing hulls ‘teetoers’

Masts quite abnormally big

Like giant hosts of ghostly ships ‘shooufertrs’

In a tureen ‘turtooters’

Gigantic moons ‘mormooteers’

With Cheshire grins ‘groouters’

Grippery grinnery

Grinding mills ‘milloooters’

Sometimes dappling yolks ‘yelkeeters’

Sunny side up

And down

The grungy ‘grangy’ cliffs

Of mountains ‘moonoutoneeters’ and stones ‘spillentekeeters’

Like sinewy triceps ‘tricepititors’

The craggy shore side

Flithery flishery flimsery flimery flammery

Gorgeously all wonder struck!

Beneath fathomless

‘Millimmerters, centrimetters, decibelitters, and kilomeneters!’

‘Finitoonetters finished’”

 

When finally the sea otter stopped

Right at tother end

Of the strange light house

Where a Clock tower man

Named Mad Hatter

Was seated right at the longest end

Of a funny table

Spread with the choicest tea table delights

Funny fish roes, caviar, jelly squids, canapé of fish mustard

Pickled Prawns and dried Bombilloes (Of Bombay Duck)

Everything fishy of course

With buttered toast

Did the funny clock man

Begin a conversation with Princess Alice

And her little cat Dinah

Asking a few conundrums

For he loved doing so all the time

“Why do you look so ravenous?

Black and curly

Almost a writing desk?”

Alice replied “Ravens and Crows are clever

Maybe that’s why…..”

It didn’t do much to his clock face

He just went on

“I guess you came here to find the time

Do you know why my face is like a clock?

All the time the time and dates fly

Whilst I prefer tea time over here

Quite contrary to low tides

I like High Teas all the time

Can you tell me why?”

Princess Alice putting a finger on her cheek

Which you usually see Shakespeare

In pictures of him

In pictures with funny balloons of ridiculous conversations!

Thought for quite some time

Then coming up with a brilliant answer

She replied

“Maybe because the time here

Never listens

Just flies oppositely

Like gravity pulls one downward

Here propels sky’s the limit

Forward running always

Thither down the other side

As you can see the moon down below

And sea plainly with earth crust

On its top!

Upon a funny moon clock tower

Right in the middle of sea”

Brilliant!

Retorted the Mad Hatter

“I give you hundred on hundred”

Clapping his hands

Along with the rat, weasel, Dormouse

And funny Cheshire moony cat grinning from below

All spectators of the Mad Tea Party

“She guessed the conundrum at last

She did”

They said tittling tattling to them

“O’ such a wise though foolish thing”

Alice turned mad

For calling her foolish

She thought she was pretty clever

At all things

Dipping her hands at every little thing

Like a Queen of all trades

And a go getter

Even an all rounder

She turned to them and said

“Well I am getting quite hungry

Is this all on the table

Fish and Fish and Fish?”

Well! Replied the Mad Hatter

“You do love mermaids don’t you?

You can have a spread of butter on a toast

But can you marry a wife without a knife?”

Once again he asked her ridiculous riddle

And answered it himself

“Not if you buttered bread without it of course

Can you butter bread without a knife?

Or cut it with a knife without a wife?”

“Why” said Princess Alice

“Surely she would butter it for you

She would be a house wife y’know!”

As a riddle went through Princess Alice’s head

Whilst she fell into the deep MAGUK WELL

“Do cats eat bats?

Or do bats eat cats?”

A conundrum she put forth to Mad Hatter

Not so pleased to hear so

For Bats and Cats

Were never on his menu

Said Mad Hatter to Princess Alice Cardinal Fairy

“Well not if they do dream like cats

And shine like bats

For here they are upside down

The sky like diamonds twinkling

Making a match

Diamond bat husband

For a dreamy cat wife y’know!

Princess Alice retorted

A handy solution

To keep them eating one another!

Fighting like cats and bats I mean

Rather He earns pennies

And she blows them like a candle”

Both Mad Hatter and

Cardinal Fairy Alice along with Lil’ cat Dinah

Had a hearty good laugh

Whilst the dormouse intervened

“You should say what you mean

Is the same thing as you mean what you say”

The rat added

 “You see what you eat is the same thing as you eat what you see”

 Princess Alice Cardinal fairy

To the Dormouse and rat

Acting like quite an intellect said

“Just like I like what I get is the same thing as I get what I like”

To which the Dormouse added

Whilst talking in his sleep

“That is sleep when I breathe is the same thing as I breathe when I sleep”

Mad Hatter’s clock face head ticked past

Whether it went forward or backward one never knew

Maybe one or two years passed quickly by

And Mad Hatter still went on with riddles and conundrums

None of them could answer

Only with fading “Nay’s I don’t” and Yay’s I do”

Surprisingly turned up answers

Totally wrong

To Mad Hatter’s dismay

Princess Alice the Cardinal fairy

 Sighed wearily

“I think you might do something better with time

Than waste it in riddles that have no answers”

She said

“If you knew Time as well as I do”

Said the Hatter to Princess Alice

“You wouldn’t talk about wasting it”

Princess Alice shrugged her shoulders

And so did Papillion cat Lil’ Dinah

 

Thence the toast machine

Made a large Popping noise

And two toasts speaking rather crackling and quickly

Popped their heads out the timely toasts on a tea tray

After an hour or so

 ‘Tseemed……

(For the clock pendulum went to and fro so many times)

“It must have struck sixty or more!”

Chattered the Toast People amongst themselves

“’Twas getting quite hot in there

Maybe TWO many climate changes

The world’s not getting any better now-a-days

And we are getting fried, tanned and toasted

Even roasted galore by the sunny glare!”

Princess Alice hearing this was quite astonished

The tea tray talking to Poor Alice

She must’ve gone definitely gaga

Said she to the Mad Hatter

“How do you suppose shall I eat such

Talking toasty people”

Well said the mad hatter

Raising his glass

As if toasting to such a proposal

“You should be like little Elsie Lacie and Tillie

They lived at the bottom of the well you know”

“Why?” Princess Alice Questioned

“Well because they could not live on top

Just like you y’know”

“And what did the live on”

Further she questioned

Mad Hatter replied

“They lived inside it though ‘twas a treacle well

I suppose

Instead of jam

So Treacle syrup I suppose”

“Mmmm…. Sounds delicious”

Princess Alice exclaimed

“But I love orange Marmalade”

“Well suits you”

Replied Mad Hatter

“If you can eat it with toasty people”

“They’re too much like caramelised Sugar”

Princess Alice said

“I would prefer them some time white

But black never

Black is Beautiful

But not when it’s on your toastie”

“What about Brown?” said the

Mad Hatter

“O’ dear you are much too ‘Mad’ I suppose”

Princess Alice concluded

“Over here everyone’s mad

Your Mad, I am mad

We all are”

Then dipping the dormouse

In a tea pot

And waking him from his deep slumber

The poor thing just was surprised

Just as much poor Princess Alice

As his head turned moist

With hot tea

The weasel and rat their curvy tails

Proceeded to tell Princess Alice a story

“Our tail on ends

Never stop twirling

We strongly abhor cats

But love high teas

Along with peppered

Fish pieces

And crumbly cheese

Fried in semolina and floury egg batter

Deep and crispy

Maybe ‘Fish n chips’

Or even mackerel stew forever with lime and honey

Skidding squid calamari down throats

Oven toasted baked sardines

Or funny sea horse, gentle mussels

And wobbling jellies

Right on our toasty breads!

Even sword nosed sword fishes we’d fight

What about crabs they’d jostle with swords

And pincers

And lobsters with antennae’s and claws

I suppose it’d be tough to win against those

We the poor spectators

Of Mad Hatter’s Tea show!”

 

“Now would you prefer….”

Said they

Counting one two three or four

On fingers

“Little sugar cubes

For your cup”

Then pouring soundly tea from a tea kettle

As it whistled ‘Pheeeeeee’ merrily

From the hot stove

Mixing in milk from a milk jug

Into a tea cup

“Shall you have one, two, three or none?

We suppose”

Before she could answer

They dropped five sugar crystal cubes

And began they stirring vigorously their cups

Putting it to their mouth

As steaming hot smoke came out like a pewter kettle

Through their ears and nose

Princess Alice then firmly retorted

Though they were too busy sipping piping hot tea

Not caring the least bit for Princess Alice

 

Whether it mattered or not Princess Alice continued

“I’d prefer a tea or coffee

Sugarless if you please

I’d mind the calories

Before I plunge with delight

Into my ginger tea, caramel or hazelnut Nescafe

As on the table there was variety

For selection

Even mint, cranberry, eucalyptus, lemon grass

Cappuccino, cinnamon, ‘caffeol’ roasted coffee beans

Princess Alice Cardinal fairy

Pouring her a hazelnut Nescafe

And Lil’ Papillion Dinah

A hot spicy cinnamon Tea

Together they enjoyed

The Mad Tea Party!

 

Whilst Mad hatter, the funny clock

Twisting the needle or hands

Of his clock face to twelve O’clock

Whether midnight or noon

Nobody knew time or date

Shone brilliantly his funny towering

Face

Like a light house Candle

Upright he stood

“Brrrrrrrrrrring Trrrrrrrrrrring Drrrrring”

His clock pendulum went to and fro

Like a neck tie

Striking almost Glorious Bells of Heaven!

 

Princess Alice did have a jolly laugh

At her ogling spectators

And the funny Moon Clock Tower

Reminding her of the Nursery Rhyme

“The clock struck one

And the mouse climbed up

Then down again

The clock struck twice

All fell quiet again

Only shores of jolly High tide

Smashed upon Mad Hatter

The funny moon clock Tower’s face

Again and again!

Hickory Dickory Dock”

 

Further proceeded spiel sequence of her fantasy journey

Along sea bed of glistening pearls

Asking a little mermaid Mabel swishing tails

For a ride on the rousing sea tide

Well Princess Alice guessed her name

Maybe because Mabel was written

On a chain she wore upon her neck

Like calligraphy so well defined and fully gold

She swam Princess Alice and Lil’ Dinah upon her back

From the livid lighthouse jargon

And clownish spectators

To funny land right into a vanity case mirrorred dimension

On the way they had a conversation

“What a beautiful bucket you sail in

Filled with priceless pearls”

Said Princess Alice to mermaid Mabel

“I appreciate you love them

Would you want some?

 I can give you as many you like”

Then taking a cupful in her hands

The sea water just splashed into them

They turned to pearls

“We call them Pearls of Wisdom”

Then saying a few magical lines

“Turn Pearls before Swine”

Lo! Behold they turned to a pearl choker

Around Princess Alice’s neck

So surprised was Princess Alice

With a necklace made of swinish pearl critiques

Thanking mermaid Mabel

Princess Alice went further to elaborate

To mermaid Mabel

“How Pearls before a Swine

Made wiser maidens much more wise”

Thence making a request for some more wisdom pearls

“Pearls before Swine”

Uttering the magic rhyme

Mermaid Mabel gave Princess Alice another choker

This one was pink

Princess Alice’s cordial gesture

This one was for mermaid Mabel

Even though she wished to gift it to Lil’ cat Dinah

She did not want to trouble mermaid Mabel

Busy thinking how jolly it was

In the funny sea bed of pearls

Things kept getting weird and weirder of course!

Almost eccentrically

In a strange and unusual way

That is sometimes humorous an adventure story

 

Busily thinking to herself and now feeling very sorry too

“I did not like living in my poky house

With no play dolls

Or even toys

Having to learn all day

History

The Maratha Empire led by Shivaji, Peshwa Bajirao I, and Chhatrapati Rajaram

 The Mughal Empire led by Aurangzeb

 1757 Battle of Plassey led by Robert Clive with British forces and thusly The East India Company

Furthermore about freedom fighters

Of Patriotic India and M K Gandhi like Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln

Even Mathematics, Prose or Geography

I learnt by heart

O’ so pathetically woes I’ve never practiced”

 She admitted to herself

“Learning by heart

Instead of using brain pills for memory

Like Alexander my green parrot

But guess down below things seem just better

Than before

 Having a mermaid doll

Pretty Mabel

Swim you to a fantasy wonderland

Yippeee!

Though I wish sometime what Alexander my green parrot is up too

I guess he too decided to fly down here below

Strange MAGUK WELL

Well! Maybe shall I meet him sometime soon again”

The strange Vanity facetted Mirror

It magically let them

Swim through it

A triple dimension

Princess Alice and Lil’ Dinah

On the back of the pretty mermaid Mabel

With a name plate of gold

 

A funny vanity mirror they preened in

That read words backwards

As well as their strange reflections

Funny if you could imagine one preening into it

That strange “KISMET” foretold in crystal balls “TEMSIK” to

Astrologers, preachers

Gypsies and fortune tellers

From ABC to ZXY

Its panoply of stars

Named “GALAXY”

From left to right

And vice versa

“YXALAG”

Flickered the sky brilliantly shining panorama of

 Cosmic alphabets

Stars and comets

Upon its funny vanity mirrors of space

Propelling downwards

Like shooting rockets, sparklers and stunning Catherine wheels

That formed deep down strange

MAGUK WELL

Whilst the land

At tother end right on top lay

Thus ignited and sparked

Skies divine

Its halo deep below

The Milky Way “YXALAG”

Though fathomless miles and countless meters below

Underneath MAGUK WELL

Unearthing a miners treasure

Upside down instead of downside up

In a deep uncharted crypt hidden like sparkling diamonds

 

Stood the pious kingdom

Of people, castles, carriages, animals, mountains

Trees, temples, mosques, mausoleums and rivulets

All upside down

With its shiny constellations

The moon beams, suns golden arrows

Twinkling diamonds

Downside up

Down under strange

MAGUK WELL

As Princess Alice composed

A poetry stanza

 

“Twinkle Twink

Little Bat!

How I wonder what you’re at?

Up above the world so high

Like a tea tray in the sky

Down below the world so low

Contrary right to wrong

Backward to forward

You shine and glow

Shine and glow

With peripheral lights

Wrongly do your diamonds lustre

Black and not translucent white

Upside down you shine

In this loving valley

In the dark blue blue sky

 

Full of rhythm and vigour

Against the earth

That you divide

So sodden and vile

Corrupt and evil

Disfigured and brute

Now underneath this strange dimension

You shine and lustre

Shine and lustre

Perfect and equal

Solemn and peaceful

Good and flawless

Beautiful and full of grace

In perfect symphony

Your world on top

And sky below

 

Though now your turn

Still upside down

Contrary wise

Little bat

Your kingdom just like you shines

Topsy-turvy

A funny pearl of an oyster shell

In a sea up above

And sky down below

MAGUK WELL

At its lowest extremities

In between

You shine among paupers and kings

Beggars and vagabonds

Like a diamond black

And not translucent white

The earth you ridicule

And greet with derision

Twinkle Twinkle

Twinkle Twink

Little bat

Now I know what you’re at!”

 

For the Earth soon tired

Its pupils

Of falseness and fake facade

Crocodile tears and fickle fame

But here in the magic realm

Everything stood true

Tried and tested

Delicately balanced

Finely tuned

Altruistic and real

Forged in fire

Perfectly supreme

Stood truest to true

 Its test of time

Through fortitude and patience

Above the shiny sun

In the sweltering heat

Topsy-turvy though!

Twinkle Twink”

 

Princess Alice with little Dinah

Finally sighted down below strange MAGUK WELL

An enchantment

Far far away

Decided to walk her journey

Right to portcullis of castle gates

“Eternity”

Though it seemed like years

Truly eternity

She enjoyed every bit of her fantasy adventure

When one day she would reach

A Beautiful ‘House of cards’

Made of Fifty two

With spiralling towers, fortresses and turrets

Angling above while skies below it

She marched forthright a brave soldier

Left! Right! Left! Right!

 

Thus thrust she herself

Into the unknown

Left foot forward then right

Like a dive of whales

A gaggle of geese

A flock of lambs

A pride of lions

A herd of horses

 A bevy of beautiful swans

Marching upright

For she believed

In this funny upside down land of Truth!

 

Soon along the way

Walking along the strange land though upside down

To reach the topsy-turvy House Of Cards

That ambient sky down below displayed

The panoply of stars

Thence Princess Alice with little Dinah

Astounded by its grandeur

In her many bold adventures

Came upon a

Stairway of Pink Rabbit’s chateau

A quaint sized dolls house by shore side

His dolls chateau and the shore!

Upside down like a glass withheld

Once more the story here enlightens

The salty brine and waves

Along with shore side rocks

All on top

Defying gravity

Never fell down at all

Whilst sky deep down below

As if it fell into a deep ravine instead

That one viewed inside a bell bottom glass

Below such a MAGUK WELL

So magical and marvellous

Sights and sounds it beheld

As one viewed tother end by a telescope

The sky now resting down below

It’s strange spiral stairway

Leading to bountiful immeasurable depths

Strange constellations

Of a secret hidden starry garden deep deep under

Further beyond!

Its magic coup

 

For she and little Dinah

 Had drank from a bottle

Of delicious syrup flavoured

Cherry, custard apple, mint, figs, strawberries

And apple tarts!

Named “DRINK ME”

Turning they smaller instead of taller

So small she could

Even drink lemonade from little bunny’s tiny cup

Eat pink carrots so small like pink jujubes

Teeny-weeny blue radishes, purple turnips,

Green magic mushrooms

 Like purple blue green jellies and marshmallows

From his tiny saucers

Growing here and there in bunches like pretty sea anemones

Even play on tiny rocking horses and rocking chairs

Whilst tiny tables and cupboards

Lay tiny saucers full of creamy delicious milk

For little Dinah too

Even dusty sofas and lounges

Filled with sand everywhere

Settled spectators like crabs, lobsters, prawns and crayfishes

Finally Alice and little cat Dinah

 Tasted a sugared door knob

That looked like a dough nut I suppose

Soon turned they bigger and taller

Princess Alice turned into a maidenly woman

With feminine grace

And her feline with beautiful whiskers and paws

To scratch with long talons!

 

Now Alice’s hands had to fit through windows

Her feet all curled up inside the room

Head, neck and knees folded reached roof tops

Of Pink Bunny’s doll’s house chateau

Whilst little Dinah mewed as loudly she could

For she too was just below

Its hood

Though upside down were they

Of an upside down chateau

By an upside down shore side

Hey Presto Pronto!

The pink bunny’s glazed blue eyes

Turned to emerald green!

He called out to his rooks

The chameleon and the lizard

To throw some pebbles

Into the story book Chateau

That turned to gingerbread cookies

That Princess Alice and little Dinah!

Soon golluped

After eating one delicious cookie

Suddenly Alice and little Dinah her cat realised

They had grown much like fat green caterpillars

After eating and munching on the leaves

Of a mulberry tree

Alice broke her conspicuous coat of green

Like buttons undid the tailored suit

With six shoes on her nimble feet scattered far and wide

Chrysalis turned her into a Cardinal butterfly

She had reached the pulpit of the

House of Cards

Lil’ Dinah her cat followed

With flutter of wing and bat of lashes

 A cat Papillion with

Little cats ears on a story book!

 

There Knaves, kings, queen, jesters, clowns

And fools

Paraded their placards upside down

Made with paper and etched in pen

Their funny hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades

The poker faced king and queen

All doodled upon their deck of cards

A castle of 52 placards

Climbed one atop another

Like a hierarchy ladder forming

A formidable game of “Snakes and Ladders”

Many serpents climbed with feet and slithery tails

 Upon its towering fortress

To play with paper Jacks and Jill’s

Hearts, knaves, jesters, clowns

Kings, queens as well jokers and aces

With silly creatures who could walk

Upwards or downwards

There was no death defying gravity y’see

In this strange topsy-turvy world

Only imagination, picturesque scenery, illustrations

With conversations in flying balloons grew above and below it

 

Whoever won a trophy at the end

Bitten by a hiss and sting of a serpent

Presented it to Cardinal Alice fairy

And her pet Papillion Lil’ cat Dinah!

Good Alice fairy

Distributed the gifts so many

Silver spoon, silver forks

Silver tea kettles and silver trays

To all rest in MAGUK WELL valley

“Wasn’t it so nice of her?”

Said the Dodo to the Lory

In turn the Lory said to the Walrus

And snail to the Frog

Whilst croaked a frog to a whiting

“Ripet Ripet Princess Alice

Surely is our shining diamond!

We all have a silver spoon

Silver bowl, silver tea kettle

Let’s have a tea party soon

On a silver tea tray”

A cock agreed clucking and cocking

“Cock-A-Doodle-Doo”

His head cock sure indeed!

So many of the participants

Got one silver spoon or trophy

As if by magic

All for her generous heart!

They cheated as they passed it on

Like a game of ‘Passing the parcels’….(Princess Alice smiles at Dinah

Giving her silver thimble to a lucky one

Crab with pincers so many!)

A pell-mell of vibrant confusion

And commotion roused they

Stirring amongst themselves

Admiration for Princess Alice Cardinal Fairy

And Lil’ cat Papillion Dinah

“Hip Hip Hooray

Three cheers

For our dear Cardinal Fairy

Princess Alice and her cat Papillion Lil’ Dinah”

 

A seven faceted vanity mirror

Soon appeared before them

Upon which such parodies paraded

Kings of hearts

Knaves of fools

Queens of tarts

Clubs and spades of

Diamonds and rubies

Jokers and knights in

Shining silvery armours jubilantly marched past

Harlequins and clowns looking

Like red hot pokers blossomed into flowers

Jesters, fools in funny caps and bells bowed and curtseyed

Even the fire brigade engine

Rumbling through its lanes

Were nonetheless

Swarms of dragon flies with shiny hubcaps

Like shiny knights in silver armours

Buzzing up and down with wings

To douse torching flames

Of supreme King Sun’s fiery rays

So hot everyone sneezed

Right pistils off flower heads

 

“Pepper and pollen instead of molten lava”

Said baby Pig to Peppa the scullion maid

Busy adding a pot of pepper to a bubbling stew she prepared

Again and again

Till the whole room was filled with pepper and pollen

Stirring the corrie pot in vain

Steam and hot pepper

Sneezing all rest in the Duchess Kitchen

Duchess, Peppa the scullion maid

And poor baby Pig Pepper

Peppa then tossing her head over shoulders

Threw all cutlery and crockery in vain

Getting irritable with the wailing and commotion

Even baby Pig Poor Pepper

Like a play toy wok

Swung maid Peppa! Over heads

Poor Princess Cardinal Alice

Had to catch poor pig pepper just in time!

In kitchen of Duchess

Where everyone and everything went haywire

Like hot smouldering picket wires!

Turned they mad and ready to vent hot irons of “IRE”

However Duchess complained

“The sun’s too hot and tardy

 I’d better wear my sun hat

Whilst I travel my jitney

Before I get a sun-stroke

Lavender and purple shall I turn

Now soon or wilt I wilt away and die

I need to play a game of Croquet

I have been cordially invited

King of Tarts and Queen of Hearts

Lest they complain

I’m too late for mallet and ball show

 I’ve struck hot a date on calendar

Dear Duke Calendula

Shall we together attend jolly good party?

To play

A game of Croquet with

 King and Queen

In a castle of 52 placards”

(Ironically stood for Royal House of Cards with trimmed lawn

Flamingos were bats, mallets were jesters on cards and hedgehogs balls)

The Duchess was in fact an orchid deep Velvet Purple Iris

A daily routine she followed

With Duke Calendula

 

Furthermore flourished with a furnish

A flare of her witty talent

Like an incorrigible rebel of a practical joker

Upon her tall leafed reed of a stem

An orchid deep Velvet Purple Iris

Looking down below the Earth

With derision

Through which Princess Alice

With Lil’ cat Dinah

Had jumped into MAGUK WELL

She went on to further explain

A few lessons of geography

Here on rocky gravel

Terrain of MAGUK WELL

“You see” she said to Princess Alice Cardinal Fairy

And her little cat Papillion Dinah

“A pivotal piece of information

Everything here revolves quite the opposite

In fact MAGUK WELL takes 42 hours and not 24

To spin on its axis

Laughing tickling the bone of her elbow

Said she to Princess Alice and Lil’ Dinah

Furthermore MAGUK WELL here rotates on its axis

Every 42 hours, 84 hours exceptionally

And everyday MAGUK WELL makes one complete

Rotation oppositely on its axis”

Princess Alice Cardinal Fairy too dumbstruck for words

Even Lil’ Papillion Dinah caterwauled

Confessing to Princess Alice confusedly

“MEEOWWW PURRRR MEEEWWW”

Funnily sounded a mewing backwards though

“WWWOEEM RRRRUP WWWEEEMM”

Like planets in orbit down below space

Their vibrations, mussels, contractions, expansions and lucid muses

Called “A Humorous BONE” (bone of elbow of Duchess

As one viewed through her funny telescope

Some type of brawny reception)

At this ASTOUNDISHING (instead of astounding) piece of information

Threw back the ravaging curls from her forehead

And thought to herself

 “MAGUK WELL

A type of a time machine capsule of inventions

Whilst with derision I clearly see

Through tother end of magic telescope…… EARTH

From where I fell (For you see this was a two way telescope

You could see both sides one the earth and one planet MAGUK WELL of course)

The earth rotates on its axis

Every twenty four hours

Each day making one complete rotation tother way

Taking almost 24 hours to spin on its axis!

How very contradictory and paradoxical

To imitate just an opposite world

Viewing I through rosy lorgnettes

Again its tother end

Another unparalleled galaxy

An upside down MAGUK WELL”

 

Long before the frog livery men had thrown

A strange rolled up invitation scroll

Just the other day after today

For even week days had no odd dates or numbers

On their strange calendars

Though were hunted out by Peppa the maid

By the crockery smashing the scullion glass window panes

As shall you soon come to know

Before they (frog cavaliers) rang the strange bell on the door

“Brinnnng Thrriinnng Drinnnng”

Came flying a big saucepan right on their heads!

Alice carried little baby pig

In her arms tenderly

Before the maid turned into ‘madder’ or a maddie plant

Princess Alice giving him a sweet kiss and a peck on each cheek

Set the poor pink curly thing free

It winked and oinked at her

“OINK OINK” affectionately

“You do look handsome, almost a Prince!”

Said she blushing pink

 

Baby Pig and Princess Alice Cardinal Fairy with Lil’ Dinah

Running thither helter-skelter amongst green shrubbery of forest glens and valleys

To taste sweet freedom from a pepper scullion pantry

Princess Alice got lost on in the long sheaves of corn field

When a dog barked playfully at Cardinal Fairy Alice

To play a game of dog and bone

She threw it and he fetched

It was a dinosaur’s I suppose!

As it rang strange bells again

This one was on scruff of his neck

And sounded again

“Brinnnng Thrriinnng Drinnnng”

Almost reminding Princess Alice

Glorious “Church bells of heaven!”

Whilst yellow arrows so hot and cheery

Those however came from below

For it was a topsy-turvy kingdom

In a strange dimension

Beneath strange MAGUK WELL

 

Those bright arrow heads

Of the fiery Sun

Again could never be extinguished

The volcano King and his everlasting flames

Burned ever so beautiful and brightly down below

Whilst its gorges with waterfalls up above splashed

Not a single drop fell or drowned deep down

Strange MAGUK WELL

Down countless meters and fathomless miles

“O’ it’s getting so very very hot”

The Pink rabbit did sigh

And removing his lacy velvet pink fan

Started to fan him vigorously

The pink rabbit’s eyes from

Emerald green

Turned to glowing ruby embers now!

Then leaving his lacy velvet pink fan

On a little table with three legs

The Pink rabbit disappeared

Poof! In a trice

 

Whilst Princess Alice fanning herself

And her little cat Dinah

With his lacy velvet pink fan

Kept on top the tripod table

Right in the middle

Of the forest glen

That appeared by its own

Surprisingly found themselves

Growing bigger and bigger

Till they were as big as the Kings, Queens

And funny inhabitants of strange land

Inside MAGUK WELL

The Pink rabbit POOF!

Appeared from behind a mushroom

For a caterpillar blowing hookah bubbles

Was his friend seated right at the top

Blowing bubbles as usual

Upon seeing Princess Alice and Lil’ Dinah

Such beautiful creatures

With beautiful wings

Said the caterpillar to them

“Enough is Enough!

Of Hogwash and Ballyhoo

I seem to not enjoy getting fatter

By the day

I guess you went through the same metamorphosis

Finally moulting to chrysalis

I hope one day I too get wings large and beautiful as yours

And your little cat

Every creature that falls in MAGUK WELL

Are gifted with a pair of pretty wings

Now ‘IF’ you would help me

Get a slice of the mushroom

One side would make me grow fatter

The other side thinner

I guess I am about to break all my buttons”

So Princess Alice obeying the green Caterpillar

 Gave him a bite of the mushroom

Soon after he bit into it

The green Caterpillar turned quite thin

And stupendous an Imago Englebert

Handsome Prince Admiral

Kissing Alice daintily upon her hand

Princess Alice turned crimson red

Wishing him goodbye

With a magical kiss upon his cheeks

She flew with Lil’ cat Dinah

 Hoping to meet him soon someday again

The Blink of a Green Caterpillar

That transformed magically

Into a Prince Admiral Butterfly

Meant Good luck to Princess Alice

As she quite found him very interesting

The pink rabbit seeing Prince Admiral Englebert

Muse over his dalliance

Pretty Princess Alice

The pink bunny winked again

 And disappeared!

 

In the funny kingdom

Down beneath MAGUK WELL

Princess Alice flew with Lil’ Dinah

In an wonderstruck adventure everywhere

Where Kings who tamed broken horses yet were proud

Queens that wore fallen crowns yet were happy

Knights who drove nameless chariots were yet famous

Jesters pawned doves for gold medals

Though without their dunce caps yet were funny

Never were strange inhabitants of this strange Kingdom

Unscrupulous whatsoever

But Nobles with pure hearts of gold

You could scratch beneath its surfaces

And find a shining diamond ‘STAR’ inside it

Clubs and spades united with daggers and sickles

Maces and bludgeons pulled aces off their funny sleeves

 Showing sinewy muscles

Proud as peacocks strutted majestic Kings and Queens

Bumble bees named “Tweedle-Dums and Tweedle-Dees”

Exchanged tit bits, love sonnets

Tokens and trinkets

With bee-stingers

To their beloved Queen Bees

“BZUB BZUB BEEZUB BUZZUB

ZUBBUB ZUBBB”

They hummed along

Whilst Princess Alice Butterfly

“The Argynnis Pandora”

Cardinal fairy

Fleshy red and spotted deep black

 Fluttering her wings with tall tentacles like antennae

Along with her cat Papillion Dinah the Lil’ fairy

Played croquet

With flamingos as bats, hedgehogs as balls

 Mallets were upside down jesters of course

 

The King of Tarts and Queen of Hearts

Here once again exchanged their strange hats

Thusly do-offing with those

“Hallo Good Evening or Hallow Good Morning!”

Instead of punishing

Their participants

“Off with your heads”

Neither did Knave of hearts

Steal strawberry tarts

They just grew in plentiful on the trees

Like juicy apples and pears!

As for the cards jousters of spades and hearts

One and two busy painting white rose’s red

They took time painting red roses white again

For the Queen of Tarts

Made sure they matched her hat

As she exchanged it with the King of Hearts

Hearts for tarts

And tarts for hearts!

Well suited their titles for the day

So exchanged they

A red one for white

Sometimes a white one for red

Never did they ever argue

In the court of sentences

For the strange land

Had no rules to break hearts (called Heart Breaks)

Or declare cruel half baked sentences to be heard

Only full and thorough ones (sentences covered in sesame as they rolled)

Said the Tortoise to the Lobster

Dancing a walz in a Lobster Quadrille

To lilting thrums

Of gentle waves drumming

Hand in hand

Two by two crabs and sea whelks

Swords and whales

Crayfishes and oysters

Danced they in moonlight

Till at last fell all in an alphabet soup

Crying they Lobster to Turtle and Tortoise

B E A U T I F U L S O O O O U P P!

So rich, creamy and full

In our bowls of lather and froth

That ne’er seems to run dry

Writhing for writing

Scrolling for rolling

Reeling for being caught hook line and sinker

In net with worm baits

 With commas, full stops

 Semicolons and exclamations

That kept conversational balls rolling again

The judge and jury were punctuations of course!

Nobody ever

Committed a peccadillo!

 

Flower folks exchanged stamen spikes

For fairy’s wands and coronets

Whilst fairies exchanged wings

For Cheshire puss’s grins

No more did they frown

In this strange dimension

But smiled just like Cheshire Cat grins

Though he vanished

His funny sliver of a crescent laugh

Hung upside down

Called “Fairy Grin”

The pink bunny’s eyes from ruby embers turned to a violet hue!

 

Thus soon many followed

Down the winding stair

Of well deep and hollow

Far from a place so false and fickle

So shallow and sombre

In strange MAGUK WELL

By own free will

At their own peril though

Everything and everyone

Who wished to see what hidden treasures

Lay beneath

 Sank and drowned

Not even a pin remained

Of their fancy cloaks, hems and pin cushions

All of them followed cardinal fairy butterfly

Guiding them like a Saint

The Alice Butterfly

And her Papillion pet cat Lil’ fairy Dinah!

 

Thus they delighted

From benighted a core of earth’s crust

To a learned realm far beyond

A Magical wonderland

Far beneath a deep hole yonder

Seven seas and seven continents up above

In a hidden dimension

No one ever dreamt about

Or even knew existed

Not even a fly

Till it fell inside

And with it

All others

The sages, soldiers

Saints, martyrs

Priests and nuns

Beneath a deep hollow

MAGUK WELL

To a kingdom so fruitful

Truthful precious and rare

Ever so good and nice

That with my pen and threadbare brush

I jot down and colour!

The pink rabbits eyes from a violet purple haze

Changed to yellow and orange jelly stones!

 As he scrambled away with the

Princess Alice butterfly

Down the upside down valley

Where the sun set upside down

It’s yellow yolk ‘Sunny side up’

Funny if you can imagine one like that

Daisies with white petals

Slept at morn’

Opened eyes wide at midnight

Smiling at Cardinal Fairy and her cat Papillion

Sweet Lazy Daisies!

Don’t you forget dear Alice’s sister Aster

(Her true name Jill

For she turned into a flower fairy as she entered into the magic realm

Weaving daisy chains and garlands)

She too flung into

Strange MAGUK WELL

Reading her book without any pictures or conversations

“O’ so boring” Alice complained

“Not now though my dear Jill

Shall we fly with pink blue glossy beautiful wings

In a picturesque scenery

Where rivers babble

Inconsistently

Gurgling brooks, giggling rock pebbles

Beneath translucent waters

Just like human jabber

This one’s pleasant though and reminds us of fickle tittle-tattle

Without any malice or judging

Purportedly with an intent to hurt

Only funny rumours to make you laugh

About strange people in a strange land of course

Once again

The land and sea on top

Whilst skies below it

Down a spiral starry stairway beneath

That beheld “Koh-I-Noor’s”

Chunky and precious ones

Under strange MAGUK WELL

The blue blue skies beheld

Deep yonder turquoise teal

Sea bed glistening pearly waters”

 

At last Prince Admiral Englebert surprised

Dear Princess Alice cardinal fairy

With her green parrot Alexander and proposed

His sweet Valentine Princess Alice Cardinal Fairy

With a blue cameo

Showing her the sky and its

Constellations

Anytime she wished to see it on top

Instead of down below

She wore upon her neck

Whilst Princess Alice’s Sister Jill

The Aster flower fairy found

A stalwart star flower

Named Bruce Jasmine

To take care of her gardens

Growing beautiful blossoms and buds

Like Mary Mary Quite Contrary’s little Rosarium

Dandelion puffs, daisies

Violets, peonies, carnations

Dahlias like wind flower wind mills

 Chrysanthemums and Roses

Even shells of every type

Just turned up their noses

If you heard of shell fairies

Pretty sea shells down cobbled stones

Of MAGUK WELL story

Inside its twisty garden pathway

Up above by the shore!

 

The rat race and the Porpoises

One day together raced

Faster than a slow shell Ahem! In a little boat

Sailing by a “Fairy Grin”

Cheshire Pussy

A rat race with curvy tails

And porpoises with tails splashed they them

Into it

Called Rat Races

Before the race ‘twas commenced

Rang a rifle shot through

The glen and sea bed

The rats were known for competition

So stiff and bleak

Had they no rivals indeed

So black without any curtsies

 

Completely white washed

Swam the slow porpoises

In creamy froth and lather

Swishing tails once a while

To show nobody mattered

Only ice and salt matter

That got inside eyes

Instead of envy and jealousy

While climbing to the top

For they believed it would mar vision

And refrain them seeing good things

 

The rat race and porpoises

Slow porpoises still succeeded

Completely victorious HOORAY!

Beat all of them sticky rats

As sometimes computer boards they display

One by one of course

Down the pavilion and salty waves

Just goes to prove

All rat races meet with disaster

Said Raven head writing desk Princess Alice

For cats pounded after them like rat catchers they

And Cheshire Puss sailing down the sky below just grinned

His Fairy Grin

 

“Whilst porpoises met slower deaths

Than usual rates”

Princess Alice agreed

“They preferred to absorb beauty

Even whilst they swam in deep dangerous waters

Like tortoises and March Hares

March Hares took time to stand and stare

Indulging they in long siestas beneath shady trees

Whilst they tortoises beat March Hares

Who show cased their offbeat talents

Proposing them to they they’d to win

Even before races commenced they challenged

In an upbeat battle

Wayward downward down below

The skies like jewels hypnotised

Its stars and planets

And the sea bed glistened like pearls

Up the steep mountain precipice and cliffs

Did March hares and tortoises climb they

To finish their challenges”

 

“The tortoises they won the race

You may call it rat race or just

Time pass, leisure or simple pleasure

What is life without care

If you have no time to stand and stare

Said the solitary reaper

Down rivers and by hidden valleys

In a secret garden

Right down the spiral stairway

Of a hidden portcullis door

Heavens that gleamed from below

No more rat races

Said they! (Porpoises, Tortoises to Rats and March Hares)”

The pink rabbits yellow and orangey eyes

That shone jelly marbles turned frosty pink glazed again

 

Maybe one day

They’d glisten all colours of heavenly rainbow

If you just wait and watch

Inside his secret garden door

In pairs of pink paws and bob tails

Rainbow eyes peeping

Everywhere

Wherever tailed they

Whosoever with them

A kaleidoscope of Princess Alice Cardinal Fairies

 Prince Englebert Admirals

Aster flower Mary’s and Bruce Jasmines!

Merrily merrily

Rowing oars

Down the sky

Shining up

Its bath tub

Of precious gleaming pearls

The Seashore upside

The whirlpool of a galaxy

Right down sinking eternally!

“ETERNITY”

 

“Twinkle Twinkle

Little bat

Now I know what you’re at!

Twinkle Twink Twink

Twinkle Twink”

 

(As legend goes hearsay

Silver lime trees are covered

In downy hairs and slightly ribbed

Freya the goddess of Truth and Love

Owed her life to the Lime or Linden tree

Thusly etching itself into different beliefs

And traditions for different worlds

Anyone or anything that stood

Beneath the silver lime tree or Linden tree

Its twisty roots below it and heart shaped leaves above

Would be compelled to say truth

And never would say a lie again

Also known as the Tilia Tormentosa tree

Its silver lime tree nutlets and weeping flowers

Is a symbol of healing, luck, truth and love

Used in woodworking, perfumery

And lime honey!)