Don't Believe Your Mirror
Reflections of sins aren’t sins.
Your past doesn’t live in your mirror.
Check it out, that shiny thing: it’s not equal to you,
even though it appears that way.
It’s a shimmer and a moment of light.
What are you?
You’re yesterday’s milk and honey.
You’re last year’s pie in the sky.
You’re more real than your mirror.
You’re tomorrow’s desire.
Your mirror falsifies.
Your mirror pretends to be you.
It steals your light and bends it just so.
But if you look…
if you SEE…
Your mirror’s lifemask will be revealed.
You’ll see how it degrades the images of your life,
how each copy is less than than the one before.
Glance at it, if you must, but then walk away.
After all, it’s only smoke….and lies.
The inequity of self-judgment irritates the heck out of me. We NEVER have a clear idea of what and who we are, if we use others’ opinions as a guide. Today I’m going to try harder to stay secure in my own knowledge.
Two photoimages and a fractal edited in Photoshop Elements 3.
It you look EVERY closely you’ll see that one side of this mirror image is lying.
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Very There ” – ))
robpixaday replied
Hi!! thank you!!!!!
JuliaWright
Wow!!!!!!!....Excellent work …....I have known all about mirrors!!
Don’t look in them for too long….they will deceive! one is always
much more beautiful than the mirror can relate…...made by man!
robpixaday replied
Yes!! You’re right!!!!!! They’re VERY deceptive!
Many thanks!!!!! And thank you for adding this to your favorites!!!
DevineDayDreams
very cool! :)
robpixaday replied
Thank you sooooooooo much!!!!! And I apologize for being so incredibly late with this thank you!!
JUSTART
great work
robpixaday replied
Thank you sooooo much!!!! I’m sorry for being so late with this reply!
sarahhoffman
interesting design and the colors pull you in..nice one robpixaday!
robpixaday replied
MANY thanks!!! I’m sorry for being so late with this reply!!
solareclips~Ju...
MHMMM…. yup yup and YUP!!! So true Robin, and the art here is STUNNING!!!
robpixaday replied
Julie! Thank you soooooooooo much!!!!! I’m thrilled that you like this!!!!
solareclips~Ju...
solareclips~Ju...
DOH! didn’t work :(
robpixaday replied
Hee….I’ve been doing this kind of thing today too…the interwebs are a bit persnickety for some reason!
Antanas
lovely work…....
robpixaday replied
MANY thanks!!! I’m sorry for being so late with this thanks!!!
Ivana Redwine
Very imaginative!
robpixaday replied
MANY thanks!!!! I apologize for being so late with this reply!!!!
Betty Mackey
Great work! Reminds me, when I was a child I used to hold my hand next to the mirror to look at the color difference. Your poem points out a truth I had forgotten.
robpixaday replied
Betty!! thank you!!!!!! And I’m sorry for being so late with this thank you!!!!
C J Lewis
Great art Rob … looks like a woman’s bustier … love it … Congratulations on your DAP Feature (12.8.09)
robpixaday replied
Chris!! MANY thanks.......I’m sorry for being so late with this reply….!!!!!!!!
linaji
the word and the pattern out of control great!
robpixaday replied
Lina!! MANY thanks!!!!!! I apologize for being so late with this thank you!!!
KazM
Mirror Magic
Wonderful Words
Truth Told
Pretty Patterns
robpixaday replied
Oh, my gosh what a wonderful comment!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
And I apologize for being so late saying thank you!!!
katekreations
Congratulations on your DAP feature :-) Kate
robpixaday replied
Kate!! thank you soooooooo much!! I’m sorry for being so late with this reply!!
genaro1
Beautiful work. love those colors
robpixaday replied
Hi!! MANY thanks!!! And I’m sorry for being so incredibly late in saying thank you!
F.A. Moore
Robin, fantastic artwork!
...and I do relate. :D
robpixaday replied
Frannie!! thank you!!!!!!
coppertrees
WOW, Robin, your writings are so amazing I love reading them..The Art is Perfect.
robpixaday replied
Oh, wow!! thank you soooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
innacas
Great combination of shapes, colors and…....writing
robpixaday replied
MANY thanks!!!!!!!!!!! I’m glad you like this!!
Judy Crayton
There we go again. I clicked next without even bothering to read. Then I went back to read … and favorited the picture. What a joy it was to note the differences of the two … and to imagine what it might represent. A whole philosophy tied up in a technicolor fractal :) Thanks. I feel rich having it in my favorites.
robpixaday replied
You’re so kind!!! MANY thanks!!!
I’m glad you like it!
Donna Ridgway
wow. I’m going to remember this. Wonderful image and writing.
robpixaday replied
Hi!! thank you soooooo much!!!
Miron Abramovici
Excellent!
robpixaday replied
Hi!! MANY thanks!! I’m glad you like this!!!!
nancyames
Delightful visual and concept combination – mirrors make such intriguing metaphors.
robpixaday replied
Hi!! Thank you sooooooo much!! And thank you for adding this to your favorites!!!!!
Sarah ORourke
Brilliant, just brilliant!!! I hope you might consider submitting it to Mirrors as a written work, we’d love to use it somehow!!!
Although i will say that there is a flip side… a mirror image to your thinking if you like… and that is that sometimes a mirror, real or metaphorical, reflects what the naked eye can’t see… what we fail to hear or feel… & what we see in that Mirror, is in fact determined by the eyes which gaze upon it, rather than the true reflection that is waiting to be seen there.
Xxx
robpixaday replied
Oh, my goodness! I just saw this lovely comment!!!! MANY thanks! Yes, I’d be honored to submit it; I hope it’s not too late.
Thanks again!!!
robpixaday replied
Oh, phooey. Submissions closed 9/30 for art. I guess I was too late.
:(
Again, thank you sooooo much….!!!
Sarah ORourke
Nope, not too late, just bmailed you now :)
maria paterson
wonderful concept
eoconnor
love this and a wonderful erite I don,t like mirrors for many reasons !! LIZ
Scott d'Almeida
great work,