Specimen (No Glass nor Pin Required)

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Romanticism

 

Weighed down and exhausted by rendered mass,
celebrity implanted your sexuality.
Unnatural for wings of metamorphosis,
which might have sought to reach true equality.
Gods of culture needn't build a glass ceiling,
they merely ensure you cannot even lift off.

 

 

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

My best shot, having been prompted to write 6 lines about this image for a contest:

 

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patriciajj's picture

Wow! Your best shot hit all

Wow! Your best shot hit all the right notes. You not only conjured a riveting and socially relevant story from the picture, but you pulled it off with haunting and dazzling style.

 

"Gods of culture needn't build a glass ceiling,

they merely ensure you cannot even lift off."

 

So true and so gorgeously penned. 

allets's picture

Really Nice Pix

Backdrop haunts - magical. Very sci-fi fantasy. Unable to fly. ~S~