read write image #17 (now known as read write prompt #81)
July 2, 2009
Cracked Lens
Contemplating you
Your visage I consider
To view you as you
Consider yourself
is my goal
This task, I cannot
Accomplish for where
I see glory and radiance
You, only tatters and
the bizarre.
A shame, that…
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Mark's Notebook 
this poem makes the colors of the image pop. both stanzas offer a stark contrast from one another and a depressing comparison from narrator and subject. there is also an element of tension here that adds to the atmosphere of this piece on the whole. a good read this morning.
Like reading my way through a surrealistic dream, Mark – great style. Thanks for writing this.
Dave
ooohhh–nice one Mark!
love the dual images.
I like the way you keep this situation of “double vision” open for interpretation.
I like the way you see that image. Great going!
equus asinus asinus
I really like the conflict between the way the speaker sees the subject and the way the subject sees him/herself. It’s something we run into all the time and the poem expresses that nicely.