What's In a Face

What's in a face?
Soft, sullen, sky blue eyes
   or dark brown or hazel green.
High rising, rigid cheekbones,
   slender curved noses,
   blushing chubby cheeks
   puffy, puckered lips.

What's in a face?
Soothing smiles, frustrated frowns,
   pinched lip smirkings.
Hug-able, subtle chuckled laughter,
  lip biting sneers, phishing contempt
  on furrowed foreheads
  wrinkled brows.

What's in a face?
Dispassionate discipline,
  approved dreams, hope and love.
There it is - 
  everything 
  revealing
  it's all in the face.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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