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luvlorn322
Junior Member

since 2002-10-28

Posts 43

0 posted 2003-04-28 05:47 PM

Simply Beautiful

You’re not extraordinary,
breathtaking
or hard to believe
but, you have an eye lock,
worth noting
that can be jarring
and even impossible to forget,
once knowing.

You’re not exotic,
dumbfounding
or supernal.
You’re just a girl
becoming a woman
but, it’s a transition so slight
to the human lens,
to blink could mean missing the best part.
Your naivete is a larvae that has yet to move,
but you are not so artless
that is hurts to watch.

You could be sophisticated
but then you would be catalogued
like vogue or esquire
and that’s not you.
Your type is temperate in its allure,
subtle in charm and sly with its staying power
like a bad first impression.
I almost don’t want to look
but, whenever we share a room
I can’t... not
and the draw is brutal, knowing you
will never belong to me.

You are not polished,
cultured or flawless.
You are unapologetic,
belching in public and
anything but bashful,
changing your blouse down to a wife beater
with two people plus storefront windows around.
You are self assured but, socialized to be insecure.
You have press on nails, dyed hair and will not go anywhere,
without make-up and a designer fragrance.
Still, you are not perfect by their standards.
You buy water bra’s because you think your breasts are too small
and you pluck your eyebrows
too far back from the bridge of your nose,
trying to smile like some docile figment of a woman
from an advertisement.
But baby, that’s not you.

You are not senseless,
incapable or destitute.
And yet there is a demeanor that precludes you
like a porcelain doll with painted tears.
Something about the way your face sits
when you’re staring off,
that calls to the mother waiting to be made of me,
every third week of the month.
She makes thoughts of planting little wallet sized kisses
inside your palm
and feeling your forehead for trouble.
She worries about you trying too hard
and I,
I just wish you would be happy
that you are, so facile and simply,
beautiful.

Justbleu
Member Elite

since 1999-08-31

Posts 3329
Oregon, Originally From Alaska :)

1 posted 2003-04-28 06:39 PM

Simply a young lady....Cool poem!!!
Bridgette

"Somewhere, somehow, it should be possible to touch someone and never let go again. To hold someone, not for a moment but forever." Unknown

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2003-04-28 06:46 PM

I should let my 15 year old daughter read this...

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2003-04-28 06:50 PM

Enjoyed...beauty is in the eyes of the beholder...or...everyone is beautiful if the observer knows how to find it...beauty is many things...I see beauty in every woman....James

Ericc
Member Elite

since 2003-01-31

Posts 4178

4 posted 2003-04-28 07:20 PM

This is remarkable!
Eric

Startime55
Member Elite

since 2003-04-05

Posts 2148
Alberta, Canada

5 posted 2003-04-28 07:52 PM

All teen age daughters should read this poem..its message is absolutely wonderful...I love it...

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

6 posted 2003-04-28 09:26 PM

Excellent write. Enjoyed. Chris

"Hope" is the thing with feathers-
that perches in the soul....

-Emily Dickinson

QjQ
Member Elite

since 2003-04-18

Posts 3756
U.S.A.

7 posted 2003-04-29 09:26 PM

very nice write

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