Prose poetry

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall

Bearing the revelation

Iva Hotko
The Bazaar of the Bizarre
2 min readOct 8, 2021

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Image by Iva Hotko

Mirror, mirror on the wall,
is it late for me to know,
who am I, and where’s my voice?

A mosaic put together from the remains of alien emotions and thoughts, is any of that mine in this vortex of truths and lies? Do we ever get to know the truth about it all?

Am I —
All the words I read, and all the songs I sang —
The Paramount of emotion and thought,
Sci-fi for all that wanted more —
All the unspoken lessons that my teacher never taught,
The plus and minus of every doubt —
Chicory to coffee, water to scotch,
Darkness to light, rain to sun —
or is it other way around?

Unique patterns of my hue — a gift of heritage in blood and soul. Lessons of old, prejudice and gold, glitter and stars, mud and intuition on how to survive

The reason offered no answers to ease the struggle, and heart was always too wild to battle. What do you do when all the paths you take, turn into an dead end?

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Iva Hotko
The Bazaar of the Bizarre

Walking contradiction of sense and sensibility. Literature, art, philosophy, gardening, nature,hiking and photography 🦋