Kait ([info]tomyretrospect) wrote in [info]greatpoets,
@ 2007-01-31 02:25:00
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Somehow listening to 80's pop made me think of this.
Mirror, by Sylvia Plath


I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
What ever you 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.




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[info]moonglows
2007-01-31 09:05 am UTC (link)
I love you, Sylvia.

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[info]hey_shoveoff
2007-01-31 02:40 pm UTC (link)
oh, i had forgotten about this poem! wonderful. :]

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[info]acomplicatedlie
2007-01-31 06:15 pm UTC (link)
LOVE this poem.

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[info]realdistorted
2007-02-01 02:35 am UTC (link)
You're so great for posting this.

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[info]realdistorted
2007-02-01 02:37 am UTC (link)
Oh and I love your icon. Margot is my favorite.

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[info]tomyretrospect
2007-02-01 04:55 am UTC (link)
Thank you!! Yeah, I love Margot... Richie is my fav, though.

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