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Open Poetry #13

To Meet the Challenge

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-04-10 12:27 PM

To Meet the Challenge
Virginia Salter

tall and thin and lean and lanky
walk around my house feelin’ swanky
that is until I spot that surface
that hits my heart, makes me grimace

for it reflects reality
no more virtual comparity
it brings me pain, despairity
to see my image with clarity
~~~~
then feeling young with energy
I move about with vitality
until again with more honest eye
more candidly do I espy

reflection of age I cannot feel
for wisdom’s not come in equal peal
each gray hair, though few remain
face with fear and deep disdain

the mirror there whose image claims
my youth’s been spent and age remains
to fear its truth is quite inane
for it only adds to one’s great pain

what’s deep inside’s what truly counts
the mirror may show what world accounts
yet who one is is governed by
heart and mind and spirit nigh

should the mirror claim thee not the fairest
upon others should one not compareth
value, pith or excellence
comes from within, its recompense

© July 31, 2000

insect
Senior Member

since 2000-04-22

Posts 1014

1 posted 2001-04-10 12:46 PM

Fantastic write!

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

2 posted 2001-04-10 12:50 PM

This was right on target Virginia, I loved it! Great write.

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