The fighting girls are in here, and the men who want girls to rescue themselves (or the men). The princess is in here, along with the true knight. Plus the crown from moosl's comment above.
And the benighted thing is two poems together, half and half. If this were a musical, the leading lady would be singing "Where Have All the Heroes Gone?" on stage left while the leading man simultaneously sang "Different Gifts" on stage right. The result is a two-part, couplet-rhymed, densely imaged paean to womanhood and manhood a la very classic fairy tales from the perspective of two people born just a little too late who are nevertheless determined to make things come out right in the end.
64 lines, Buy It Now = $64 because this was SO enough work to need a dollar a line
*gasp* *pant* *wheeze*
And the benighted thing is two poems together, half and half. If this were a musical, the leading lady would be singing "Where Have All the Heroes Gone?" on stage left while the leading man simultaneously sang "Different Gifts" on stage right. The result is a two-part, couplet-rhymed, densely imaged paean to womanhood and manhood a la very classic fairy tales from the perspective of two people born just a little too late who are nevertheless determined to make things come out right in the end.
64 lines, Buy It Now = $64 because this was SO enough work to need a dollar a line
needlunchnao, ktnxby