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Mon Feb-18-08 08:01 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 2/18/2008) |
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Mirror I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike I am not cruel, only truthful – The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over. Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me. Searching my reaches for what she really is. Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. I see her back, and reflect it faithfully She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands. I am important to her. She comes and goes. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
Sylvia Plath
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:hi:
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Mon Feb-18-08 08:05 AM
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1. More and more every day |
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As much as I hate getting older, there's nothing that can be done to stop the process.
Thanks Retro for posting this. :hug:
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Mon Feb-18-08 10:17 PM
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Mon Feb-18-08 09:58 AM
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2. Love me some Sylvia, but |
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Edited on Mon Feb-18-08 09:58 AM by Tuesday Afternoon
too much Sylvia can tear the soul.
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Mon Feb-18-08 06:23 PM
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Mon Feb-18-08 10:22 PM
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5. She must have the same mirror as I do... |
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Mon Feb-18-08 10:24 PM
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I want to trade my mirror in for a model that shows me the way I want to look...
Is that too much too ask? ;)
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Tue Feb-19-08 12:10 AM
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8. When you find one, buy one for me (and I'll pay you back). |
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Mon Feb-18-08 11:48 PM
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What a fascinating look at an ordinary, every-day object...
She turned the mirror and the lake into mystical, magical objects...
Really beautiful...
Somedays I think I'm just too damn ordinary to write such luminous works...:cry:
Still, I thank you for this poetry...:hug:
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