In Your Shadow


Captured for eternity
in your shadow.
My name forgotten
in its faded ink.
No questions are
raised to ask my identity.
I am merely a subject
of a camera lens.
Your photographic
genius forever applauded
while I am merely a face
without a name.

©Susie Clevenger 2011
Photograph: Lee Friedlander , 1966
 Magpie Tales Mag 96
Magpie Tales

Comments

Mimi Foxmorton said…
Lovely!
(and makes one think....)
:)
December 19, 2011 at 7:25 AM
Anonymous said…
Nice take on the prompt. I often look at old photos and wonder what became of the subjects. There's a book in that idea somewhere...

Jamie
December 19, 2011 at 8:56 AM
Sheila said…
interesting to give the glory to the unseen photographer and no credit to the subject. "a face without a name" - that speaks volumes. nice one, Susie!
December 19, 2011 at 9:16 AM
Helen said…
She does look anonymous ... nice writing. Happy Holidays!!
December 19, 2011 at 11:11 AM
Jinksy said…
Cameras have little respect for identities...
December 19, 2011 at 11:15 AM
Brian Miller said…
nice...sad a bit...what good is a pic without the person in it and really knowing them and who they are...
December 19, 2011 at 2:02 PM
Isabel Doyle said…
A bit like Mona Lisa ... beautiful lines
December 19, 2011 at 11:56 PM
Doc FTSE said…
I see the point of your poem much more clearly than the point of the photograph.
(Like a lot of 'art' . . it's by Lee Friedlander, so it MUST be good.)
December 20, 2011 at 8:15 AM
Carrie Van Horn said…
Love what you did with this Susie!
:-)
December 20, 2011 at 3:13 PM
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