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Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1896) [image courtesy Poets United]


silently truth speaks -
the face of my mother fills
my mirrored gaze
© gillena cox 2018



HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY MOTHER MRS MARY MITCHELL SHE IS 88 TODAY [growing up people always said to me you look like your mother except for your father's brown eyes; and i would say to myself, i hope i grow into my own face]




Blog Hopping today with

Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Truth
Susan is prompting today


Revisit
hibiscus hedges
coconut sweetbread
a photo of my mother


Enjoy The Music

Cinderella Syndrome 19

...Then she took her into her chamber, and said to her, "Run into the garden, and bring me a pumpkin." Cinderella... went immediately to gather the
finest she could get, and brought it to her godmother, not being able to imagine how this pumpkin could make her go to the ball. Her godmother scooped out all the inside of it, having left nothing but the rind; which done, she struck it with her wand, and the pumpkin was instantly turned into a fine coach, gilded all over with gold...
[bygosh.com; Cinderella,or The Little Glass Slipper]

continuing the Cinderella Syndrome or What every girl should have; well!!! at least once in her lifetime, anyways...in haiku/haibun style throughout the month of August; e-mail me or add your contributions at comments; to be included in the day's post