Shrek Poem

Post date: Nov 4, 2016 5:09:39 PM

Shrek Summary (In Poetry)

by Jonathan Holzmann.

Two children, both only alike in age,

Met on stage

Where they laid the play

A sending away,

One with to too much freedom,

One to too little.

Led to the hardening of one,

And the desperate softness of the other.

Until one is thrust out of their swamp, their safe place

Goes on a simple errand to speak with the duke

And gets a similarly simple quest: to rescue the other

While towing along an insubordinate, inane ass

Who despite his crass

And who will not leave his side

Instead Foiling his way through Shrek’s multi-layered hide,

Then they arrive.

The dragon (of dancers)

Is moved to be aside,

The princess is rescued

But her fairy tale has been set awry,

For her rescuer is an ogre.

And as they journey back to, change in their normal range in life

The feelings develop, climax to a height,

This story might just turnout alright...

And come crashing down, a spectacular fall

For mislaid words come, changing all

As a blight on true love’s light,

Sending every single feeling awry with all it’s might

Tempers get blown,

Things come head to head/

And Fiona goes off to dumat to be wed.

(Where if the townspeople aren’t perfect,

They’re dead)

[And thus the need for communication, for otherwise

Children could be very well left at a train station,

Heading off to a stranger’s plantation]

Then there are a couple revelations,

A couple climaxes, a demonstration,

The donkey delivers his admonitions

Spitting out hard points like machinegun ammunition,

To show Shrek the world that he sees on the inside,

Is not the true world with true potential for welcoming him,

Outside and in.

Shrek crashes the wedding, and sings of the world,

For there is no way else to express that emotional whirl

And the story comes full circle

And is a fairy tale after all.

Farquaad is completely unaware, and

Dismisses the entire affair

With disdain and a flair.

But his fears come alive,

As his halfling identity is exposed to the outside

And while he runs offstage like a rat,

The couple sings,

And that is that.

And then there are the bows and encores

And a couple of awards

As we clap for the people who worked by the score

Weeks and months, school years in advance,

For these couple times and chance

To share this story with us.

Bravo.