Your Sugar Sits Untouched

Rapunzel Sonnets

Sonnet I

Dreaming from my tower 

In the air 

Higher than the trees 

Surrounding close 

Wondering if men 

Would find me fair

Footsteps down below 

Break my repose 

The mist about my window 

Hinders me 

From viewing 

Who would enter in my court 

But so few visitors I chance to see 

Intent I am 

On making my report 

And tuning my sweet song 

Towards the earth

I’ll change my fate

Which left me here since birth

Sonnet II

Six notes 

Only had I sounded 

When 

The footsteps came nearer my prison wall 

Trembled I

Yet sounded them again 

And from what seemed the pit of earth 

Heard call 

A voice 

Quite different 

From those I had heard 

Though I could count that number on one hand 

My lips 

Too dry to speak a single word

I wondered 

Why I had not better planned 

And tried in vain to step back from the sill 

For something held my hair 

And kept me still

Sonnet III

I tried to scream 

But sound I could not make 

My frightened wit had robbed me of my speech 

I thought of how my tresses 

I might break

But spied the scissors 

Just beyond my reach 

Frantically 

I fumbled through my skirts 

Searching for my dagger in the fold 

The same I used 

For tearing linen shirts 

And as I knew 

Not what of me had hold

To sacrifice my braids 

I raised my knife 

Too late! 

I now must kill to save my life 

Sonnet IV