<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577284" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mirror Struggled</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mirror struggled; reflecting beauty such as hers<br>Prescribed a glory in the challenge – a fairytale<br>Or such as like! To shimmer back hypnotic hues <br>From auras of her skin – how do mirrors cope? <br>Hoary tales of pretty adolescent buds<br>Could never hope to match the tomes of dreamy<br>Pulchritude apprising us of such a belle as she.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mirror shone; and as it worked itself, a moment –<br>Did it overlook the hidden melancholy? <br>Were melting eyes bedewed–? Florid lips imbued<br>With mournfulness? The hindrance of the silver glass! <br>Oh! to seek – to know the meaning of the sorrow! <br>She (with tearful hair, an image out of heaven) <br>Never opened up her heart. The mirror struggled. <br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Copyright Mark R Slaughter 2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>m irror mirror mirror - mirror mirror mirror<br>mirror mirror mirror - mirror mirror mirror<br>mirror mirror mirror - mirror mirror mirror<br>mirror mirror mirror - mirror mirror mirror<br>mirror mirror mirror - mirror mirror mirror<br>mirror mirror mirror - mirror mirror mirror<br>mirror mirror mirror - mirror mirror mirror<br>mirror mirror mirror - mirror mirror mirror</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mark+R+Slaughter">Mark R Slaughter</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577284" data-title="The Mirror Struggled de Mark R Slaughter" data-description="The mirror struggled; reflecting beauty such as hers Prescribed a glory in the challenge – a fairytale Or such as like! To shimmer back hypnotic hues From auras of her skin – how do mirrors cope? Hoary tales of pretty adolescent buds Could n..."></div> </div> </div>

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