Medusa’s Overbite

I looked past the ripples
in the reflecting pool.

Her image replaced mine.
The face of a chiseled
goddess, framed
with fiery red hair,
curled like a coital
knot of snakes.

Her dark eyes burned
       with desire.

I was seduced.

But, her ruby lips
parted, revealing
a gap between her
yellowed buck teeth,
a darkness,
            a blackness,
                         an abyss. 

Reality 
         is only the consensus
                    of similar 
                  perceptions.

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Thank you! Perceptions are

Submitted by poetpete on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 16:12.

Thank you! Perceptions are individual and life is not two dimensional.

 

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I happened to read this poem

Submitted by Nostalgia on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 12:55.

I happened to read this poem because the title was so appealing, but I enjoyed it very much. Makes me think that not everything is, what it seems. A Medusa is a beautiful sea creature with a terrible poison...
I'll come back and read more of your work.

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