Secrete Beauty

She was not blessed with comely grace, spurned and shunned by cupids arrows because of her displeasing face and breasts like kneecaps on a sparrow. Her scrawny frame one could infer if dressed in red and eyed sideways she’d mimic a thermometer; no outward grace to be displayed. Her real beauty was deep inside hidden behind two large, brown eyes where a beautiful soul resides eternally and undisguised. Beauty is a skin-deep grace it’s just a temporary thing: a short-term asset on a face that fades away like this years spring.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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Poteet Avatar
February 4, 2014 at 1:22 PM
I like your philosophical pieces...your point of view coincides with my own being the reason. Nothing more distasteful to me than a beautiful face/body with an empty head and heart. Good reading here, Albert, thanks for sharing.
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February 4, 2014 at 11:41 PM
I'm so glad you liked it. Thank you for the kind comment.
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August 8, 2013 at 6:34 AM
I hope you did, April. Thanks for commenting.
Mitchell Avatar
August 6, 2013 at 8:38 PM
Well a very true observative poem!i sure a lot of people would love this!
Chircop Avatar
December 5, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Beautiful poem..yes without doubt the inner beauty lasts forevermore.
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December 20, 2012 at 1:16 PM
Charma, Amen to that.
Guzzi Avatar
November 25, 2012 at 8:22 AM
One does wonder if it is possible to have both aye? A beautiful form and soul? Light & Love
Ahearn Avatar
December 20, 2012 at 1:15 PM
Inner beauty is immortal, comely grace is mortal. Most of us possess both but oftentimes emphasis is on the latter. Thanks for commenting.
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