The Lost Adults of Neverland
1. The Other Woman
The “other woman” is Wendy
She’s co-dependent with Peter
She’s passive-aggressive with pirates
and sleeps with lost boys
She threatens to leave Neverland
because Peter won’t be her daddy
He won’t discipline the children
or stop seeing Tiger Lily
Wendy won’t live in Peter’s shadow
She wants to wear it as her own
She professes her love for Tinkerbell
but aims a poisoned arrow
Hooked on fairy dust
Confined by her storybook
Wendy is a lost girl
with a Peter Pan complex
2. Wendy Wants a Bigger Island
There are no cell phones on Neverland
So, Wendy emails Peter to say
that she’s joined a 12-step program
and is sewing new curtains
for the Darling home nursery
“Oh, and by the way,
bring some milk and bread home for dinner
Captain Hook is coming over,” she says
Peter wants a divorce
but can’t afford the alimony
He storms off the island
Takes a job in construction
He won’t wear a tie to court
~ Colleen Redman
Read The Lost Adults of Neverland Part I HERE. And other dVerse poems at the Open Link Pub HERE.
May 1st, 2012 3:21 pm
snort….this is fabulous…i LOVE it…lol…a cracked tale if i ever heard one…nicely modernized to our foibles…
May 1st, 2012 4:24 pm
Oh wow…like this so creative 🙂
May 1st, 2012 4:46 pm
haha…this cracked me up…so good…thanks for the smile…this is when reality finally enters the world of fair tales..ha…love it
May 1st, 2012 4:56 pm
Clever play on words. Rather like the twists and metaphor in The Lost Woman over Wendy Wants a Bigger Island, but both are clever and well composed.
May 1st, 2012 7:52 pm
Ha..ha..I enjoyed your creative and fun take…very nice ~
May 1st, 2012 8:22 pm
well done… poor Peter…. guess he’s going to have to grow up now.
🙂
May 1st, 2012 10:45 pm
Great stuff, Colleen….Very Funny…and poignant, too…Poor Peter. Poor Wendy. Oh Dear. lol!
May 2nd, 2012 10:53 am
Fantastic! Peter slings a hammer. Too, too good. 😉
May 2nd, 2012 2:17 pm
These series of poems are both amazing and poignant. (Oh, I see Old Old Lady Of The Hills used the same word.). You are so talented it takes my breath away.
May 2nd, 2012 7:07 pm
Thank you all for the encouraging feedback!
May 3rd, 2012 10:32 am
Wonderfully clever – an apt metaphor for the dysfunctional way of the modern world. It only makes us smile because it seems so unlikely but not really. Those are nervous smiles we wear. Great work.
October 19th, 2016 7:07 pm
[…] 8. There are no cell phones on Neverland / So, Wendy emails Peter to say / that she’s joined a 12-step program / and is sewing new curtains / for the Darling home nursery / “Oh, and by the way / bring some milk and bread home for dinner / Captain Hook is coming over,” she says / Peter wants a divorce / but can’t afford the alimony / He storms off the island / Takes a job in construction / He won’t wear a tie to court – From my poem Wendy Wants a Bigger Island. More about Wendy HERE. […]