Standards Beauty Poems

In a world where beauty's confined,
To a frame, a shape, so pre-defined.
I refuse to bow to discrimination's hand,
Refusing to let it define me.

No more the...

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“STANDARDS”

Let’s talk about the standards of the general society,
And not just society, the beliefs, normalizations and false norms believed by variety,
We live in a new...

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I am beautiful no matter how dirty I feel
There is beauty from ashes to ashes and dust to dust, and muddy water has never been...

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One would not know, to look at me,
my years spent at the ballet barre -
tights sticking to me in summer,
cold fingers in winter.

And the aching...

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Oh my god she's so fat, 
her stomach has rolls. 
And her thighs shake when she walks, 
unbelievable that, 
someone would comment on someone's folds....

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Poet’s Note: Beauty used to benumb beholders. Today’s beauty is simply numbered and indexed. One thousand (mille-Helens) make one Helen, the unit fashioned after Helen...

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Help me to
find identity in you
understand my worth
value your standards
recognize my unique qualities
designed by you
Lord, to you I pray

Help me to 
appreciate me
see myself the...

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Mirror mirror on the wall, tell me the beauty standard that society set for all.
  Telling a woman how to behave, submitting all stereotypes...

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From the moment I get up I have
These familiar doubts. About me
And my face and my body and my image and
The reflection I see everyday...

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The sapphire iris blinks
the long blonde lashes meet
against the milky white skin
the hair made up into blonde curls
her frock with frills
clearly marking the standards
Her bottom...

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When she was six years old,
she tried to make her hair look like 
how a friend’s did in school
but her coils wouldn’t kink anymore.
Her mama...

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She arises,
And she prays to God everyday
She’s so thoughtful she speaks in positive ways
Nature calling
God’s Daughter
And all that she is…
Meaningful beauty

She settles,
Has high standards
Yet she’s...

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White
Lacy
Delicate
Ethereal
Worthy queen of blooms
How, then, were you called weed?
Arbitrary rules of man
Set the standards blindly for all
Those unique or diverse become flawed
But all we, like...

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When Yang-strong Egos
like a great FirstWorld nation,
or an ecologically robust multiculturing community,
or a theologically resilient
good faith
polypathic sacred communion,
or a democratically healthy
cooperatively owned 
and polyculturally managed...

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Could it be possible, 
all i see is an illusion? 
Notice all of the confusion.
Nonetheless lies and intrusion. 

I must fight them to live my...

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