My good friend, Sally Yagi (aka Sarah Louise), was a delight over 30 years in Japan--we discovered early on that we had gone to rival colleges in San Antonio at roughly the same time.....now Sally, over 70, has published her third book of poetry: Poetic Potpourri.
She says these are "discarded" poems from her two earlier books, but this one is by far my favorite.
Here is a very intriguing poem (no, I haven't done the experiment yet):
Self-Portrait
I snapped a photo of myself
while gazing in the mirror
and placed it next to the picture
you shot of me yesterday.
In mine, my left side's on the left
and in yours, it's on the right.
This may be quite obvious
but it just dawned on me
that the me you're seeing
is not the me I see every day.
No wonder when we view
ourselves in snapshots,
you always hear us say,
"That doesn't look like me."
The photo you take
is the 'me' that you know,
but the image in the mirror
is 'me' to me.
Imagine my surprise to realize
the cute gal in my looking glass
is seen by no one else.
It's the stranger
I've been sporting
for everyone to see!
So you can go ahead and laugh
because the joke is on me!
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I read this and thought of the photos you took the other day. So which you do you see now? A good poem.
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