In The Mirror

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    In The Mirror
    Look at this clown, painting on a new face, every
    waking day.
    Trying hard to paint on upside down frown, hoping it
    would stay, and not wash away.
    Laughing and joking around, to keep my head from
    hanging down. Here and there playing a trick, to
    disguise how my heart is sick.
    Anything to make you smile, helps keep me from
    my sadness pile. So again I will run from my pain.
    Looking at this clown, looking back at me.


    Look at this clown, painting on a new face, every
    waking day.

    Trying hard to paint on an upside down frown, hoping it
    would stay, and not wash away.

    Laughing and joking around, to keep my head from
    hanging down. Here and there playing a trick, to
    disguise how my heart is sick.

    Anything to make you smile, helps keep me from
    my sadness pile. So again, I will run from my pain.
    Looking at this clown, looking back at me.

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    lithiumblack commented on In The Mirror

    09-08-2009

    What do you do when you've reached a point where everything you could possibly say to praise another's poetry, sounds like a redundant, recycled cliche'? Do you stutter and stumble across plaintive tongue tripping fiascos, hoping beyond hope that the lady in question is able to decipher such nonsense? Or, do you babble endlessly anyway, about things that most people could never possibly care about, such as being unable to find the proper words to comment on such a masterful poem by the Word Goddess herself? Shall I invent a new language and teach it to you, so that I'm able to communicate my awe and respect so that only you are able to understand? Shall I paint for you a portrait...a literal translation with images, of your beautiful and powerful words and how I am slowly becoming addicted to your style and your fingertips' expressive penchant for wordplay? Or do I just do what I usually do, say a few idiot words and leave you with a 10? I long to see the clown with a genuine smile...
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    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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