Suspended Between Mirrors

Neville

Suspended Between Mirrors

 

Since his eyes were

so hungry

to feast on her form ..

He set about

erecting a bank of tall

mirrors

either side of the clear

water stream

where she so often did

bathe ..

Tho’ since he wanted

to see

her reflection so badly

suspended ..

He did yet lean further

and further

above and then o’er

the water ..

From the bridge he thus

created tween

those fine mirrors of his ..

And as she

descended, like an angel

from heaven ..

Unaware of his presence

she slipped

from her robes and into

the water ..

Where likewise, he too

sadly slipped

and did drown, in her image ..

 

  • Author: Neville (Offline Offline)
  • Published: April 11th, 2023 03:30
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  • orchidee

    Yes, it happened to me - I did this, and fell in the river! Doh!
    Not that I was spying on KP. That would be too ghastly.
    I read of a couple who wanted a foursome with Ken Barlow and Lulu. I would never recover if I saw any videos of it!

    • Neville



      You need to watch where you are going .. folk might get the right idea ..

      • orchidee

        How could anyone survive, or be the same ever again, if seeing anything of that foursome? Too ghastly! lol.

      • Accidental Poet

        I believe that's called, "falling in love". ๐Ÿ™‚

        • Neville



          Absolutely .. go on, make me chuckle why dont 'cha ๐Ÿ˜Ž ))

          • Accidental Poet

            Well, if you insist...
            And when tears of laughter
            Flow like rivers from your eyes
            Youโ€™ll try to gain composure
            Then suddenly wonder why ๐Ÿ˜

          • Fay Slimm.

            A hunger for romantic antics to catch beauty unclothed can lead to a finalรฉ so tragic I almost wept and at the same time started to laugh at your ever fertile imagination so expertly scribed mon ami and as ever I loved every line ...........x

            • Neville



              I think that's precisely the reaction I was hoping for Fay, thanks a million my very dearest of Fay's .. x

            • Bella Shepard

              Ah, be careful what you wish for. I can only assume that his heart's desire fulfilled, he died a happy man. Sad, but beautifully told dear friend.

              • Neville



                now that's just what I wanted to hear .. many thanks Bella

              • Goldfinch60

                May that love be a reality instead of images Neville.

                Andy

                • Neville



                  there's nowt wrong in imagining Andy, that's where both dreams and poems seep through ๐Ÿง๐Ÿค

                • L. B. Mek

                  my mythology mind, reaches for Echo and Narcissus
                  mirage, linkages

                  my love of Keats takes me to his Lamia verses
                  ''Fast by the springs where she to bathe was wont,
                  And in those meads where sometime she might haunt,
                  Were strewn rich gifts, unknown to any Muse,
                  Though Fancy's casket were unlock'd to choose.
                  Ah, what a world of love was at her feet!''

                  (yet, when all rapture of reactionary immediacy
                  finds in me a portal to serene, thought
                  I must take heed and realise, once more
                  dear Poet supreme
                  it be your words and poetry, alone
                  that stir me to realms of poetic ecstasy)
                  and thus I thank ye, with utmost sincerity
                  (lol
                  forgive my egotistical foolery Hyung
                  I just loved your poem)

                  • Neville



                    I am honoured beyond the point where adequate and apt words by way of a response, are likely to elude me for the foreseeable .. in the interim, my meagre thank you will have to suffice, but I will make it a BIG un THANK YOU MEK ๐Ÿ™‚



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