Women Mirror Poems

Victorian mirror was extraordinarily romantic
women who discovered her were never disappointed
their wishes came true after her purchase
men flocked to them, for their desirability was heightened
a...

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Beneath billowing sack cloth tent 
An auctioneer jibber-jabbers his words.
Below his red mahogany dais
Sit Fifty Amish American women and girls.
Black-bonnet-ed, bidder-number in hand, 
they chirp...

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I
When my landlord is a slumlord
The sermons also mock God
"There but for Grace go I"
Helps see a plank in my eye

II
Here, no exposing of hypocrisy
Makes...

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Every morning I see my dad in the mirror.
Same hazel eyes
Same round chin
Same freckles
Same bad teeth
Same straight up haywire hair
“Hi Dad!” I say
My eyes grin,...

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"Mothers" - A Conversation with a Daughter 


In my 60th year I came to the conclusion that women are gods in their own right. Children...

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She is young the downstairs maid told the upstairs maid.
Young women do this kind of thing all of the time.
The upstairs maid did not think...

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These are not events that took place very far in the past
These are obviously ongoing racial gaffes and contrasts
Where human beings are bombarded and mistreated
Where...

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thesis: strength endures voids and emptiness.
strength constructs no homes (antithesis:

if your house leaks then on swollen days
in sullen seasons there is no home for you)

there...

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Waves
swing your wings 
in the rhymes
of a longing song.

Water’s mirror
splashes you with
silvery kisses
when your wings
become a vessel 
in the wind....

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1. Agencies are spying.
2. Be alert and aware of surroundings.
3. Bad guys have long arms.
4. Choose wisely between family members and relatives.
5. Cancel unnecessary meetings.
6....

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I usually avoid the woman in the mirror.
Today she caught my eye and made me stop
I saw things I had not ever seen
Her eyes are...

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I bid love's mirror fond adieu
but saw it gazing back at you
my face framed in your iris'
flecked with gold ...

I dared to press your lips...

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When I look in the mirror
I see
a little old women
staring at me
and as I ponder
what I've seen
the beauty of a sunrise
or a walk by the...

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For two hours the Amish noticed the funny fowl dance
Delighting that the rooster and guineas attacked the mirror
The Amish women laughed as they hung out...

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"Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do."


Beauty ...
Those stunning faces
So taken with their own reflection
That they have no time for anyone else.
Such...

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