Curiouser and Curiouser...

Perhaps my parents should have named me

Alice,

 after the girl who went through the glass of

looking.

Would have been more appropriate

for a

lass who often ventured down rabbit holes where

reason

was elusive, yet, they named me Carol ~ 'a joyous song

to sing.'

Laura, at dverse poets, has prompted us to write a poem of 10 lines with each 'even' line having only 2 syllables. The even lines should convey a little poem in their own right. The rest of the lines are without any particular format.

Here's the link: The Poetry of Names