Green

My original poem conceived at 3:18PM 3/29/2023

Fell in love with the fairy queen

She was truly a rarity

Was not all that it seemed

He then turned mean, laden in jealousy

Never again to be seen,

But she remains in his dreams.

My revision written 10 minutes past midnight 3/31/2023

Fell in love with the fairy in green

She was a queen, truly a rarity

She kissed his mind that screamed mine

Warped his thoughts, painted them obscene

She was a fiend, not all that it seemed

He then turned mean, tainted in jealousy

She left him cruelly, never again to be seen

He awoke in heat abruptly from his strange dream.

The latter is highly inspired by La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats. I don‘t want to replace the original because it tells a slightly different story.

Xoxo