~Your Face~

By WordWulf, 20th Feb 2011 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/1mo_i69-/
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~Where falls beauty~is it a mirror trick~woman by example~historical sirens~wars fought & giants slain~easy to deny the power of that face, those eyes~ until they turn from the mirror~catch you looking~

~Your Face~

~Lady of Sorrows~

It is written, her face launched a thousand ships, the lady Helen, temptress of myth. Her beauty mocked them, princes and kings, seductress and siren, her dark shadow wing.

Poets, dreamers, and prophets alike have studied and written the myths, closed their eyes to imagine them, those fantastic feminine faces, women who smiled the smile, understood the power, the decent indecency of gender. We’ve witnessed a few, flesh and blood. What man could turn his back on Jackie O, the dawn of forever in her eyes, beautiful, tragic, transcendental magick.

The sum of this, the all of this and you stare through the glass with your dark sultry eyes, lustrous tresses framing your face, to tempt men to defy the Gods with hands to caress, eyes to devour. Mythology and history be damned, yours is the face, the very face, to die for, its Cherokee underpinnings, feral. A man understands, instance of ecstasy. This woman knows what she is, more at ease than impressed with herself.

Your face is the stuff of muse and myth, classic, cameo, silhouette, whose beauty intimidates, whose smile initiates conversations concerning your aloofness, lofty sense of entitlement, of which you have not and could care less, which, of course, is what the talk is about. The myth-makers will write your faithful friend, Santana as a lion and cougars, your cats and maybe they are, in the reflection of your face, beauty extant, timeless, exalted.

Cleopatra might have worn your face, kisses, Marc Antony, the asp and death. Your face might be the siren song, irresistible and all there is left.

~Tom (WordWulf) Sterner~
~Dream Don’t~
~Blessings of Phaedra~
~Woman as Wing~

Meet the author

WordWulf
Tom Sterner lives in Redding, California and Arvada, Colorado with wife Kathy. He has been published in numerous magazines and on the internet, including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Skyline Literary Review, The Storyteller, and Flashquake. His interne...(more)