What
if The Brothers Grimm decided to write a Christmas poem as a warning tale for
children? What do you suppose, would be the aftermath of such an epic poem?
Little Red Riding Hood becoming a feast for Santa Claws (eh, that's Claus, I
think)?, Hansel and Gretel roasting Santa in an oven? Cinderella marrying one
of Santa's elves or maybe, even Jack Frost? According to Wikipedia, the
Brothers Grimm stories were didactic in nature at a time when discipline relied
on fear. (How times have changed, han?).
Today, Google Doodle
celebrates the 200th Anniversary of Grimm's Fairy Tales. There's a complete
cartoon slide of The Little Red Riding Hood story on Google's homepage. I
wanted to do a little catching up on the fun so, I decided to create a
Grimm-inspired Christmas poem.
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| Photo: Google |
Come take my hand and let us walk
into a fairy tale
Mind me now 'cause what you see will
take your breath away.
This is the land where the impossible
takes place alway.
How could Red Riding Hood have been
so very cool?
Riding solo in the woods, engaged by
Big Bad Wolf?
How could old grandma pull thro? She
was down with the flu?
I'll share a little secret. Can you
keep a folklore secret?
There is magic like a shroud that
enfolds all like a chaplet,
It attracts faith like magnet you'll
find it trapped in your closet.
A land where you can rip shadows off
folks with a steel tent-peg;
Where there really is a Santa and his
assistants are the undead;
Come see Hansel and Gretel push a
witch to her death.
Where an entire kingdom holds still
for it's Beauty sleep.
Every day is Christmas with Seven
Dwarfs to make life sweet.
You can have my place if you'll have
a frog for a prince.
Thus is Christmas celebrated in fairy
tale land
Side by side with wicked stepmothers
and evil ogres
And Pied Pipers steal your kids if
you don't pay for rats!
Akpan
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