Perfection's Chains
...Perfection's Chains
Inner child
Blinks back tears through the cheval glass
At a bruised reflection staring back
Battered by the hand of perfection.
2-20-21
Taken from Woman in Chains
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Categories:
cheval glass, abuse, childhood, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Woman In Chains
...Woman in Chains
Inner child blinks back tears through the cheval glass
At a bruised reflection staring back,
Battered by the hand of perfection,
Wearing chains in glimmering pearls deception,...
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Categories:
cheval glass, angst, beauty, health, mental
Form: Free verse
Shattered Mirrors, Shattered Past
...i think of you often...
this cheval glass
titled like downcast eyes
retracts memories
of reflective past
i see you there
this tiny frame
surfeit on pain
can't see me
beyond you
gaun...
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Categories:
cheval glass, image, mirror,
Form: Free verse
The Ballerina
...Long ago there lived a girl with long livid locks of sable,
Whose vivid avid amber eyes derived, it seems, from fable.
Her tiny tendons tied to nimble bones to each limber muscle enhanced,
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Categories:
cheval glass, dance, fun,
Form: Couplet