Four Floors I live in a room that has no doors,just four flat, imposing floors:One above me, one beneathOne behind, one by my feet.At times they grow, side-to-sideA years' travel by a car ride.At others they crush me from all sidesWhere every inch can hear my criesSometimes they speak. Mad, you say?That's what they tell me every day."Change for us," they beg of me"Haven't you learned; why can't you see?Now, do this, that and the other,"When will they shut up, I wonder?They never do. They never will.Even if all their words I fillThey'll just get smaller, I've heardBy the way of a precious wordBut the floorsthey ju
The Bravest Knight Take up your sword, brave knight,And save the princess from the towerBefore the dawn turns into nightAt your very latest hourPut on your shining armorAnd your chainmail under thatAnd by the stand, by the door,Your metal, feathered capBeware the greedy goblinsWho take your precious gemsTell them stealing is a sinAs a message you must sendHop over the treacherous watersAnd climb up the mountaintopsTo the hair that you did for herBrushed thinly without knotsYou see the enchanted creaturesCreeping darkly in the nightWith frightful, slimy featuresAnd heads that are not uprightYou kill the eight-leg whatsits,
Red Princess Chapter 1 In a large castle with red steeples and towertops, an almost frighting commotion was occurring. Maids and servants rushed left and right and up and down, shouting almost incoherently through the noise of their stomping feet. The only emotion that was prevalent on all of the faces was fear. When they weren't shouting, "Where're Her Highnesses?!" they were shrieking out their terror for their own families. The only quiet was inside a spacious room with mahogany tables and chairs and scarlet carpets and curtains. Brown and gold trimmed the regal room, and a red-stained wooden bed too extravagant for the intended guest it was sized for