… but you don’t have to be young (or even young at heart) to enjoy them.
And, if you’re my friend
Jacqueline Jules, you can learn life lessons from
fairy tales and share those lessons in charming poems like this:
The Fisherman’s Wife
Jacqueline Jules
Not satisfied
with the cottage
the fish conjured
in place of a shack,
she requested a castle.
Luxury not enough,
she demanded power.
We all know
where her greed ended—
in the hovel where she began.
But what’s the warning for me?
Not to ask too much if by chance
I meet a magic fish?
Cottage or castle, there’s always
someone with more.
That piece is from Jackie’s new chapbook,
The Golden Key to the Garden, a beguiling collection of fairy tales told in deceptively simple language, and always with a gently told moral. Here’s a message I particularly like, from “Over the Rainbow”:
Even in Oz,
troubles don’t melt
like lemon drops
and no one gets back to Kansas
without dousing the Wicked Witch
“There is a reason why iconic tales are told and retold from generation to generation. A reason why they become reference points in our culture,” says the publisher,
Bottlecap Press. “They
reflect our fears and foibles, offering timeless insights. In
The Golden Key to the Garden, poet Jacqueline Jules shares personal discoveries gleaned from her favorite stories.”
Your own personal discoveries await you in
The Golden Key to the Garden.
