Previous Entry | Next Entry

Gypsy: Sedoka: Rose's Turn

  • Jun. 1st, 2016 at 1:23 AM
Title: Rose's Turn
Fandom: Gypsy (musical)
Length: 32 words
Rating: G
Characters: Rose
Content notes: no warnings apply
Summary: It's time for the big finish



All of them leave you.
Your Mama. Your husbands. June.
Herbie. Miss Gypsy Rose Lee.

Alone on the stage,
take your place in the spotlight
and strip right down to your soul.


Technical note: The website Shadow Poetry defines sedoka as "an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7. A Sedoka, pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives.
A katauta is an unrhymed three-line poem the following syllable counts: 5/7/7."

There are lots of recordings of Rose's Turn on YouTube, including the original one by Ethel Merman and the most recent London version with Imelda Staunton.


About

[community profile] fan_flashworks is an all-fandoms multi-media flashworks community. We post a themed challenge every ten days or so; you make any kind of fanwork in response to the challenge and post it here. More detailed guidelines are here.

The community on Livejournal:
[livejournal.com profile] fan_flashworks

Tags

Latest Month

June 2025
S M T W T F S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930     
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios
Designed by [personal profile] chasethestars