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Instructions:
1) Write a poem or short vignette using the picture featured in this post as your inspiration. Feel free to take the image to use for your post.
I stand before a mirror
that should cast a reflection
of myself
only to show the back of me
or the back of someone else
Is the mirror the one which
plays the trick
by eliminating
your view
the mouth the brow the nose
perhaps
it’s just your thoughts
deceiving you
for what we sometimes look at
is not always as it seems
black tailored suit
raven hair cut short
and wavy at the
back but can I tell
you something that you may be
surprised to hear
what isn’t shown encompassed
within
the frame you see
are the secrets I have lived
with the guilt
the shame
throughout the years
yet this is the way that
I am perceived
how I’m looked
at every day but there is
so much more to me
I’m not called John but Fay
For
I found this one really difficult – and welcome critique. Thank you.
Ramblings From A Mum 
Nimble and inventive; well done.
It was a struggle Berowne believe me! 🙂 Thanks for reading.
Yes yes, we both thought so!
Hello Irene thanks for popping over and taking a look. So far we are the only two that have ‘seen’ this in the prompt, wonder how many others will?
How cool is this one? well done. hugs and night night! xxxxxx
Thank you madam, night night to you 🙂 xx sweet dreams..
Hey mumsy!!
I’ve tagged you! No stress if you don’t want to play. 🙂
http://depressionexists.com/2013/03/26/1260/
Paula
xx
Jenny
THANKS for hooking me up with another creative writing prompt.
This is what I came up with [a series of four HAIKU
It’ll be just lovely
To look at me from behind
As others usually do
Please, is my hair combed
Without single strand astray
Perfect, glad at last
Are my clothes wrinked
Because I’ve got no iron
For them to be gone.
Perfection at last
I now can venture outside
To imperfect world
P.S. I also mentioned you in my comment there, 🙂
Thank you for you Haiku, the combination was lovely, you should enter the various sites where these challenges are held Picture it and Write, Five Sentence Fiction, Trifecta challenge, Magietales. There are ones just for Haiku as well 🙂 There are many where you can show your works and get critique on if you wish, give them a try? xx
THANKS for your feedback 🙂
I’ve been on Five Sentence Fiction for several weeks and I’ve tried my hands on the other sites you’ve mentioned [taking the cue from you]
That is so sweet – thank you 🙂 I shall think of something else.
Good job. For some reason, this take flashed through my mind, too. Kind of a Victor Victoria kind of thing.
Thanks.
=)
Thank you Sue for reading. A little bit quirky I guess ..similar to the artist perhaps 🙂 Appreciate you popping in.
nice take
“for what we sometimes look at
is not always as it seems
black tailored suit
raven hair cut short
and wavy at the
back”
& i do agree that mirrors can be tricky, faithfully imaging how we see ourselves (which so often is not who we really are)
Ruth yes I so agree with your comment, thank you so much for coming over and for reading.
Appearances can be deceiving! Great twist.
Thank you T for reading. Appreciate the visit and your thoughts.
I cannot tell you how I wish to write of this photo … it is infused with so much subtext.
Your poem you write. Again dark.
*whisper gently* … sometimes mirrors lie … and bend the truths.
I wish you would write on this photo…please do?? and I know what you are saying and hugssss xxxx
Great for the prompt! I’m still giggling over Katie’s response 😉
Thanks honey, ‘we’ have corrected the issue 😉 xxx
Picasso has a painting that I have a poster of in my living room. It’s of a woman looking in the mirror and it’s from his cubist period so of course both the woman and the reflection are distorted. I love it because we all tend to look in the mirror and what we see in our minds eye is a distorted image reflected back—not the real reflection. I love the painting because it reminds me not to do that. To love what I see in the mirror and not some distorted image created in my mind. I love your poem it reminds me of the Picasso Painting.
Ivonne
What an excellent way to think when you look in the mirror, I think as we get older we need to do this more often. I love that my words reminded you of the Picasso and I thank you for telling me why 🙂 xxx