Poets United Mid-Week Motif ~ Mirror

“The time will come when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome.” 
― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes

Today’s motif: Mirror

What do you see when you look in a mirror?  What is the best mirror you ever looked in? Do you have a mirror story that needs a poem?

I am inspired today by Agha Shahid Ali and Sylvia Plath:

I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror

  by Agha Shahid Ali

     By dark the world is once again intact,

     Or so the mirrors, wiped clean, try to reason. . .

                                                 --James Merrill

This dream of water--what does it harbor?

I see Argentina and Paraguay

under a curfew of glass, their colors

breaking, like oil. The night in Uruguay

is black salt. I'm driving toward Utah,

keeping the entire hemisphere in view--

Colombia vermilion, Brazil blue tar,

some countries wiped clean of color: Peru …

- See the rest at 
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16090#sthash.05S3zAB8.dpuf



Mirror
by Sylvia Plath (from The Collected Poems)

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike ...

- See the rest at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/172450-i-am-silver-and-exact-i-have-no-preconceptions-whatever

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1. Post your mirror poem on your site, and then link it here.
2. Share only original and new work written for this challenge. 
3. Honor our community by visiting and commenting on others' poems.

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