What happens when the mirror cracks?
Do you write poems
on your split cracked face?
or
Do you get real:
Get a new glass,
Puff on some powder,
clutch up the dishevelled locks
With assorted pins,
Perfect your eyes (unperfected by smudge)?
Whatever...
Dispose the old bits carefully.
Glass hurts, and leaves nasty marks,
Even after the drops drain out...
© 2017 Monami
A short poem about love, trust and deception
A poem about quicksilver dreams of young love and disillusionment. Translated from Suddhasanta's Bengali poem "Abhrasamagra"
A satire on faces and masks we wear
A poem on choices and masquerades, of Venus, Mars and Saturn, of yearning desire and fallen cherubs...
The mirror and the web in Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" are potent symbols of multiple significance. This article explores some of the ways to look at the poem in terms of identity, transgression and art, vis-à-vis social control, female agency and creativity in Victorian England.
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