When Mirrors Cross Your Eyes Comments

Good poem, Frank. Jesus, you made the Top 500?

what a picture this paints...love your dark flair for the written word!

Self-inflicted! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

- - Now, fronting the mirror on two bruised twigs, you stand and snarl at mirrored reflections that bristle you, from what you believe you actually see........- - - - This is truly a real cause and a painful reality. Thanks for bringing light to it in such an eloquent manner. Congratulations, Frank... a well deserved recognition of a Wonderful and purposeful poem.

Congratulations on poem of the day Frank. An interesting view of the deadly mental illness that is Anorexia. The mind is a powerful weapon and tool and you have expressed the torment it can create in this poem. A very intense write without a word of a lie composed. Well done indeed.

Such an interesting write worthy of 10++++

The two final stanzas are so beyond the rather close described and disturbing body of the poem above them that they really threw me for a loop. The penultimate stanza is so over wrought with angst and immature assonances that it loses all semblance of seriousness. And the maudlin moralizing of the closer is morally wrong and fairly contemptible. I rarely like to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but there's just too much stink on the rear end of this one to believe it can be salvaged.

you stand and snarl at mirrored reflections that bristle you, from what you believe you actually see..........., as opposed to the you Beautifully expressed A person seldom understands the real beauty within. Thanks poet for the poem. 10

This is a beautiful poem on anorexia and mental illness with heartfelt depiction Thanks and congratulations for being selected as the poem of the day.

a very sad descriptive poem of a fairly modern obsession that causes suffering and misery to a lot of already beautiful people? ........................brilliantly written Frank

'Now, fronting the mirror on two bruised twigs'.... did supermodel Lesley Hornby (nicknamed Twiggy) start this unhealthy craze? They do not wish to die. They are starving for attention, for perfection. A distorted body image causes them to view normal womanly curves as fat. A stick-thin figure pleases them. And once the weight begins dropping off, it's addictive and unstoppable. Brilliantly, accurately, disturbingly written, FJR j.

Raw description of a disease not often poetised. Hard to watch and now its laid down from you. Respect.

Anorexia nervosa the eating disorder, a person is too much concerned about his weight and self image..Frank it's a wonderful poem.

Your hourglass, weightless - of sand, grain, and Life; so obvious, your changes, and the impact, yes, that it's had on me; Nicely penned poem, thanks poet and congrats for POD. 10

Most scrutinizing expression reflected by the crossing mirrors is horrible and ghost to witness! Please divert view towards beauty of Nature for relief, my dear!