Tone And Pet (A History Review) Poem by Practicing Poetess
Tone And Pet (A History Review)
Antony Armstrong- Jones
And Margaret Rose
Liked to dress up
In each other's clothes.
Two petite rebels
Who broke all the rules
Shocking the monarchy,
Who thought they were fools.
A gifted photographer,
Tony did take
The royal family photos
Great portraits he'd make.
Margaret, the pretty one,
Married late
When brave Peter Townsend
Could not be her fate.
Tell me, is it worse
To wed a divorced man
When you're truly in love?
Could she not take a stand?
Instead, her new bridegroom
Was decidedly camp
And, to his theatrics,
His wife played the vamp.
But, the fun soon wore off
When gone were the thrills
It became holy headlock
With both their strong wills.
The end of their story
Not happily-ever-after
Instead, not surprisingly,
Was quite a disaster.
Why, of the two sisters,
Did the younger first depart?
I wager she died
Of a broken heart.
Pan ahead to present times. Divorce seems more tolerated today. Three of the Queen's own children- - Prince Charles, Princess Anne, and Prince Andrew- - are all divorced.
Was Princess Margaret born before her time? She could have lived a long and happy life with the man of her dreams, Peter Townsend.
Thank you, Tee Cee, for positively commenting! Why do you think so many T.V. commercials and jingles get stuck in our heads? Music (and rhyme) have the power to imprint more permanently on the brain, than does mere prose. I even know some of my own poems by heart! Back in the days of Henry VIII and his 6 wives, divorce in the monarchy was unthinkable, so he had two of his wives beheaded when they couldn't provide him with a male heir. Also, it was the unacceptability of divorce amongst royals that permitted Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret's own father to become King, when their Uncle Edward VIII chose marriage to a divorcee over the throne. Yet in their lifetimes, Her Majesty's three eldest children all divorced. To re-phrase Bob Dylan: And the rules, they keep a-changin'.
I wish all history was taught with rhythm and rhyme. I would have remembered some of it. And THAT is what I call a satisfying (and poignant) ending. Thank you for sharing it. :)
Impressive quilling, Poetess...along with a most intriguing Poetess foot note. If I may be so bold to make a suggestion, that IMO, the above work might be even more structurally sound than it already is by employing a nonagon of quatrain Stanzas...It will stretch the poem out more and I believe make it more eye pleasing. Either way...stellar crafting, indeed.~FjR~ I
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That's quite a soap opera, but nothing, compared to be on a poetry site. :) Another good one PP. I don't know why I never noticed you before, your style is a lot like mine, sometimes.
Thanks, Crow. As to your last sentence, perhaps that's why I enjoy reading you so much! Talent recognises & appreciates like talent. I'm surprised that no one yet has commented (and chuckled) at my substitution of holy headlock for holy wedlock, to describe their mutually strong-willed relationship. Real-life makes for the best poetry material sometimes!