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 PAPA BOIS: A PREQUEL

He was a boy, 

just a little trini boy

Like any other boy

Pitching marble

Hoarding marble

Swapping marble

Till one day

Oh what a day

A memorable day

He wandered into the forest

The thick dense forest

Spirit and tree filled forest

He was never seen again

No one heard his voice again

His friends looked for him again and again

Till years [after]

Friends who became hunters [after]

Sometimes swore they saw [after]

A familiar face flash by

A face aged now, but with horns

A face older than the hills.

© gillena cox 2024 

[Papa Bois image from google]

##Papa Bois, a French patois word for "father wood" or "father of the forest" is a popular fictional  character in Trinidad and Tobago folklore  

He is the protector of the plants and the animals in the forests. He is half animal and half human. The lower half of his body is of a goat and the upper part of his body (his head, chest, and arms) is like a man's except that he has two horns coming out of his forehead.

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH

. . . and what were you like before . . .

The prompt; to write about a fiction character before they became who they are [i edited to add: the story / poem is my imagination of what Papa Bois was before he became the mythical character we now know him to be] as the prompt asked... You’re simply being asked to think about the possible background of a famous character or mythological figure and write a poem showing a different side to them...

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