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Mirrors don't lie! They also don't (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo 21 hrs ago OP
my mirror must be defective. ret5hd 21 hrs ago #1
😁 Floyd R. Turbo 21 hrs ago #2
My mirror is dirty...it's a bad reflection on me... MiHale 20 hrs ago #3
Bahdumtssssshhh! Floyd R. Turbo 20 hrs ago #6
Mirror by Sylvia Plath (1961) quaint 20 hrs ago #4
☺️ Floyd R. Turbo 20 hrs ago #7
Mine makes me laugh or cry, depending upon my mood. Sneederbunk 20 hrs ago #5
☺️ Floyd R. Turbo 20 hrs ago #8
"All puffed up with vanity, we see what we want to see. To the beautiful and the wise ... the mirror always lies." Intractable 13 hrs ago #9
🤔 Floyd R. Turbo 2 hrs ago #10

quaint

(4,702 posts)
4. Mirror by Sylvia Plath (1961)
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 01:31 PM
20 hrs ago

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

(1,702 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
13 hrs ago

- Rush, War Paint

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