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Healing Properties?

For Matthew's "Mirror, Mirror" challenge

By Cathy holmesPublished 13 days ago 1 min read
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A soft silken touch,

To soothe and exfoliate.

Yet, the heart still breaks.

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For Matthew Fromm's "Mirror, Mirror" challenge:

"Write a poem about a mundane object in the 5-7-5 format."

Senryu
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Cathy holmes

Canadian family girl with a recently discovered love for writing. Other loves include animals and sports.

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  • Tiffany Gordon 5 days ago

    Fabulous work!

  • L.C. Schäfer5 days ago

    ♥️

  • Hannah Moore6 days ago

    How'd you get so much pathos into moisturising?

  • Christy Munson8 days ago

    You so so much deeper than skin deep with this one. Powerful writing, as always.

  • Novel Allen10 days ago

    Yep. We could be as pretty as lovely roses...heart is just as frail. Still we lubriderm away. kudos

  • D.K. Shepard10 days ago

    What a pivot you created with the last line! Nicely done!

  • Heather Hubler11 days ago

    Ooo, killer last line!! Well done, Nitty!!

  • Shirley Belk12 days ago

    right! Sometimes, it just hurts.

  • Paul Stewart13 days ago

    ouch...masterful. So much in so few words...impressive and so much truth to it. Well done, Buddy!

  • Hmmm... I felt it

  • Kodah13 days ago

    Ha love it!! 💌

  • Of course it does, silly! Lotion doesn't work like that. Try glue 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Jokes aside, I loved this so much!

  • Babs Iverson13 days ago

    Superbly expressed and loved it!!!♥ ♥ ♥

  • Heather Zieffle 13 days ago

    Nicely done and great entry!

  • Daphsam13 days ago

    Yes! So good!

  • Andrea Corwin 13 days ago

    Ah ha, I saw yours and did one. Good one, Cathy!!

  • Matthew Fromm13 days ago

    Ooo I like this, lots going on in so few words. Thank you for joining!

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