A year's worth of poems, every week for 52 weeks, spanning 2023 and 2024, plus the year following, from August 2024 to August 2025.(provided I live that long, of course).
Thank you, Allan Charles. I've contested the Charlie Chaplin thing a couple of times, won once, if I remember correctly. But it's the kind of thing I try when bored and have nothing better to do - just doesn't seem to have happened lately.
My father said I was a reflective personality
and it’s true that I deal in reversed images,
painting portraits for my patrons, personally
persuasive of their particular pulchritudes,
yet secretly negative in my ultimate purpose
and truthful in matters both light and dark,
at times to my own detriment and danger,
the legendary seven years my sole defence
‘gainst disappointed delusion and disgust
in those who ask for news they do not want.
It’s a living in the end, at times a pantomime
of mirth, at others a matter of tragic insight,
a constant narrative of sight and seem,
a fable fast forgotten.
Line count: 14
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 17 2023
Prompt: Mirror.
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