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Overdone Quinceañera
She’s framed in a portrait that’s slightly off-center
wearing a fur stole her sister has lent her.
Her chin on her hand, jewels on finger and wrist,
she’s trying to hide that she’s never been kissed.
Just a teenager, she’s longing for glory,
trying to add romance to her story.
Though she looks mature, she is new to the scene.
Time enough for such glamour when she is sixteen!
An Ekphrastic poem for dVerse Poets Open Link
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
This is so much fun – love it!
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Thanks, Kim.
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Love the way you wrote about the pic! And great rhyming with it!!!
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Very good take Judy.
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I love it, Judy. You have captured the picture perfectly!
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Sounds like a very plausible person behind the girl masking to be a woman
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The image is so Art Deco, and the whole culture of “overdone Quinceaneras” is so South florida!
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And so Mexican….
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