All(Uring) Charms Of The Looking Glass. Poem by Baru Gobira

All(Uring) Charms Of The Looking Glass.



July2010

The beauty of a cup scarred
By a slash of the painter’s brush
Mangled yet majestic in its timeless sadness
Seas opening to let THE Master through
Mountains with a bald table top
Or a poet’s enraptured gaze at Sheba’s Breasts
Mysteries without explanations
A broken tooth
That enhanced the actress’s smile
Strange music that stopped a heartbeat
A mis-pelt word in an iconic brand
Attractions or fatal distractions
True art is but a matter of flawed perfection
Beauty however marred
Can but only beauty be
Much like a grey streak
On a woman’s coiffure
All(uring) charms of the looking glass.

Baru Gobira 2010

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