Poetry Resonse #8: What the mirror said By Lucille Clifton

What the mirror said

By: Lucille Clifton

listen,

you a wonder.

you a city

of a woman.

you got a geography

of your own.

listen,

somebody need a map

to understand you.

somebody need directions

to move around you.

listen,

woman,

you not a noplace

anonymous

girl;

mister with his hands on you

he got his hands on

some

damn

body! 

     What the mirror said  by Lucille Clifton is such a beautiful poem about what woman should see in the mirror rather than what they think they see. It also touches on how a man should treat a woman as well. Right off from the start I could tell the author was African American by the way she says and portrays word in this poem such as "you a wonder" and "you not a noplace."  I picture a woman judging herself in the mirror while the mirror decideds to speak up. First telling her how great she is, then almost mocking her thoughts of what she sees, and then brings the poem back around to see the beauty she really is. Most woman when they look in the mirror look at any flaws they see and how "fat" they are, but the truth is we are beautiful in our own way. Don't let society tell you how to look or feel. Saying that, then men, respect your lady and ladies in general. They are beautiful don't be so quick to judge the outside when true beauty is found within. Girls remember that when that man does has his hands wrapped around you, he sees you as beautiful just as you should see yourself as beautiful. The reason I enjoyed this poem was the fact that it's true even for myself... I don't look in the mirror and think beauty, I think of everything that could change to make me "beautiful." The truth is we are all beautiful and we as well as others need to keep that respect of beauty. 

You are all beautiful keep your heads up always! :)