Maisie can you run over to Grandmas?
I promised her cakes with chocolate and cream.
She has a visitor coming in for tea
She is so old she can’t get around.
Grandma is aging, her sight is not good
She can’t run for buses nor mow her own lawn
She relies on us daily to do all we can
She loves cheese on toast, made from rye bread.
Maisie set off in her flowing red cape
She never arrived we discovered much later
We looked all about, in every possible place
We found no trace despite every clue.
Maisie’s cape was found in the woods
Her basket was empty, the cakes were all gone
Grandma swears she never arrived
But neighbours saw her passing, skipping by.
Everyone had a theory of where Maisie went
The wolf some had cried, we saw it was the wolf
But we spoke to the wolf he protested his innocence
Said he’d seen Maisie over by the sheep’s pen.
Maisie’s story was told near and far
We searched and we searched, we asked and asked
But no clue emerged, we were forever lost
To explain why Maisie never arrived at Grandma’s.
Written for: http://pookypoetry.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/poetry-prompt-26-modern-fairy-tale/
Morpethroad 
I knew you’d do a great job of this prompt. I wrote it with you on mind (heaven knows what I’m going to do with it)
Thank you Pooky, I am happy I did good!!!
This is definitely a modern fairy tale because it doesn’t have the fixed and knowable ending. I love the meter and stanza format – it has a lovely flow. I’m just miserable that I don’t know what happened to Maisie and, in our modern age, I doubt it was anything good.
Thanks Sarah Ann I appreciate your comment. Yes you are right in the modern age we anticipate a sad outcome.
Oh, poor Maisie! Really well done Michael. But I’m afraid for the poor girl, nowadays, so many do disappear and are never found again. So sad.
Thank you Jackie the modern tale doesn’t always have a happy ending. Thank you again for your comment.
wonderfully mysterious!
Thank you, if you know the Australian play Ruby Moon you connect with my poem. Thanks again for reading.
Thanks for taking me on this exciting ‘magical mystery tour’, Michael. I really enjoyed the ride.
Thanks for reading Karen. I hope you are well.
This is brilliant. So well crafted and such a great (and accurate) modern take on the story.
Thank you Serena that’s a lovely comment. Happy you found my poem so.