Mirror Image, for the W3 prompt, Jan 23, 2025

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Mirror Image

Who is the person
reflected in my mirror
over the past 77 years?

First me
then my mother
then my grandmother.

A reflection first of youth,
then lines
deepening into cracks.

It took me a minute to write the poem but two plus hours of sorting through 160,000 photos in my photo file to find photos to use with it. I never did find the actual photo I wanted to use. So goes life. It is true that a few years ago I started to see my mother instead of me when I looked in the mirror. Recently, it is my grandmother’s deeper wrinkles I see.

      • W3 poetry prompt

        For this week’s W3 prompt, Tia offers us the following guidelines:

        • Theme: The bittersweet, painful, or unsettling aspects of the past and its hold on the present;
          • Optional Challenge: Use imagery of shadows, cracks, or reflections to add depth to the theme;
        • Form: A “square” (e.g., 2×2, 3×3, 4×4, or any other pattern you choose);
          • “Rows” represent stanzas;
          • “Columns” represent the number of lines in each stanza;
            • For example: 3×3 = 3 stanzas of 3 lines each; and 4×4 = 4 stanzas of 4 lines each.
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My blog, which started out to be about overcoming grief, quickly grew into a blog about celebrating life. I post daily: poems, photographs, essays or stories. I've lived in countries all around the globe but have finally come to rest in Mexico, where I've lived since 2001. My books may be found on Amazon in Kindle and print format, my art in local Ajijic galleries. Hope to see you at my blog.

35 thoughts on “Mirror Image, for the W3 prompt, Jan 23, 2025”

  1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

    It took me a minute to write the poem but two plus hours of sorting through 160,000 photos in my photo file to find photos to use with it. I never did find the actual photo I wanted to use. So goes life. It is true that a year ago I started to see my mother instead of me when I looked in the mirror. Recently, it is my grandmother’s deeper wrinkles I see.

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        1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          Yes, but my poem was very brief. Fun to write to prescription if it isn’t too involved. I give up on the prompts that have you doing 7 different things at once..except for ones with lots of word prompts. That’s okay as it is fun to see where they lead you.

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        1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          I would love to see a photo of you with red hair. I always wanted to have auburn hair. My boss when I worked for Bob Hope described me as a strawberry blonde but I never saw myself as that color.

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            2. Martha Kennedy's avatarMartha Kennedy

              Ah, in this photo I was 44 or so. That’s Ananda, a Colombian Red Tail Boa. He was the tamest, sweetest little snake — just a baby. He would curl up under my neck when I took a nap. I liked him very much. I was only baby-sitting him. They become very large, and his owner found him a good home.

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