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What Could Be More Important Than Appearance

We are all the same they brag
So we can be friends
I look at them
One old one young
One toothless, one with pretty straight white teeth
One dressed shabbily, the other one a band box of beauty
I know I am missing something.
I am thirteen.
I should be able to figure this out
Surely nothing is more important than appearance

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Suzette Richards Date: 5/21/2021 12:51:00 AM Yes, even adults don't get it right by judging people as worthy when they have surrounded themselves with glitz and glamour. We need to set a better example for teenagers in their formative years. Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/22/2021 3:45:00 AM We surely do! I know we can. Let's start now.

Thomas Wells Date: 5/21/2021 12:29:00 AM Hi Caren, Society through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old. It is both full of contradictions and brutally honest. Nicely done! Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/22/2021 3:46:00 AM Thank you Thomas

Paula Goldsmith Date: 5/20/2021 3:35:00 PM A creative write. Yes, appearance is very important. Many do not care. Enjoyed this one. Have a blessed day............ Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/22/2021 3:46:00 AM I could care less. I used to care but the closer I get to seventy the more I let myself "just be me".

L Milton Hankins Date: 5/20/2021 10:06:00 AM Ah, I think you figured it out, Caren, but a thirteen-year-old just doesn't have that intuitiveness yet. Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/22/2021 3:46:00 AM They are not there yet, but hopefully they will get there.

Christuraj Alex Date: 5/20/2021 10:02:00 AM Adolescent Psychology. Very Nice. Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/22/2021 3:47:00 AM Thank you Christuraj

Juliet Ligon Date: 5/20/2021 8:59:00 AM Seems to be the most important thing at that age. Effective way of describing it. Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/22/2021 3:47:00 AM It surely is and we all have to look and act and be "exactly alike" yet we want to be unique. WHAT???????

Alexis Y. Date: 5/20/2021 8:58:00 AM WoW! Caren, It's like I was reading a poem by a thirteen-year-old girl. Peer pressure and the media’s obsession with a superficial perception of beauty doesn't help a young girl trying to figure out who she is. Excellent job. Have a great day:-) Alexis Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/22/2021 3:47:00 AM I have the mind of a 13-year-old girl some days, but other days I am only five.

Demetrios Trifiatis Date: 5/20/2021 8:33:00 AM Well-written poem. I pray those who read it reach the right conclusion, dearest Caren. Hugs xxx Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/22/2021 3:48:00 AM Thank you Demetrious. Curiously the ones who read my poems are usually decades older than 13.

John Lusardi Date: 5/20/2021 8:13:00 AM I have to show this work too a close friends 14 year old Daughter, who, as i write, is weighted down under clouds of doubt and depression, regarding Appearance is everything. Its a great observation and sadly a true fact. Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/22/2021 3:48:00 AM I blame social media, magazines, blogs, and fashion advertisers partly.

Quoth Theraven Date: 5/20/2021 7:41:00 AM Caren, A sigh illicited in this Verse., the awkward days of thirteen. The main misconception of outward appearances; keeping them up. Look for beauty where you will, it's also found in healed scars. -Richard Login to Reply Quoth Theraven Date: 5/20/2021 8:20:00 PM I fave'd this of course. Somewhere in this poem it hits you like a brick. I dunno why, dunno where, just does. After all, we were all thirteen once. -R Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/20/2021 7:43:00 AM This is so true Richard

Edward Ibeh Date: 5/20/2021 6:13:00 AM Nice! I really enjoyed this piece, Caren:-) Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/20/2021 7:43:00 AM Thank you very much Edward