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Mirrors don't lie! They also don't (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Jan 19 OP
my mirror must be defective. ret5hd Jan 19 #1
😁 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 19 #2
My mirror is dirty...it's a bad reflection on me... MiHale Jan 19 #3
Bahdumtssssshhh! Floyd R. Turbo Jan 19 #6
Mirror by Sylvia Plath (1961) quaint Jan 19 #4
☺️ Floyd R. Turbo Jan 19 #7
Mine makes me laugh or cry, depending upon my mood. Sneederbunk Jan 19 #5
☺️ Floyd R. Turbo Jan 19 #8
"All puffed up with vanity, we see what we want to see. To the beautiful and the wise ... the mirror always lies." Intractable Jan 19 #9
🤔 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 20 #10

quaint

(4,926 posts)
4. Mirror by Sylvia Plath (1961)
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 01:31 PM
Jan 19

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful‚
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

Intractable

(1,933 posts)
9. "All puffed up with vanity, we see what we want to see. To the beautiful and the wise ... the mirror always lies."
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 08:59 PM
Jan 19

- Rush, War Paint

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