Long Body image Poems

The day before I posted a picture on my Facebook page that I thought would bring criticism my way. It was the picture fuller sized woman, sitting on a wicker chair. The controversial bit? She...

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Hey guys this isn't a poem it's more like me telling you all about myself and my life.
As you all may know from the content of my poems that I suffer from mild to severe...

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sweet decadent belly
how ever will you forgive me
i didn’t know
couldn’t know 
how to love you

i didn’t see that you were more than a belly
you were an entire person
an easy breezy lover girl committed to the...

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Behind bars, there I lay
Suited in red 
No man near by
To fight,to talk or to sympathize
Laying there between four dull walls
I live only for and by the memory of last night
My body shivers whenever the...

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The last time I stood here
I was terrified
Fumbling and stumbling over words
That didn't feel right in my mouth
I had no way to explain the butterflies in my stomach
And clouds in my mind
What if I mess...

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I've had thunder thighs and cankles,
For a portion of my life.
Boobs the size of melons,
Causing me such strife.
I would puff like a steam train
On the slightest little walk.
And shove junk food in my mighty gob,...

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BLACK BEAUTY

Beauty is said to be in the eyes of the beholder,
But why do I need to wait to be “beholden”?
For those of us who are bolder, and know better,
Whose skin tones and body types...

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The unseen ache,
the hollow feeling of being unseen.
To loathe each fragment of yourself,
a puzzle with no hands to mend it.

Like shattered glass filled to the brim,
spilling, cracking, never whole.
Distraction is a bandage too thin,
but the...

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TikTok, the new harbinger of sin, 
Trends promoting vandalism within.
Bathrooms defiled, decency abandoned, 
In the name of likes, morality to bend.

In the name of body image, abortions justified, 
Innocent lives extinguished, under the banner of...

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The image taunts her as she feigns sleep
Purposely driven to her essence
And as sure as it is there, it is evil
It drifts around the room like a lost ship at sea
The mysterious shadow lingers in...

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I, Adonis, born out of an incest of father-daughter
Semitic god, a hunter and a handsome man
A god of vegetation, women’s laments “Adoniscries”
Festivals on me in spring, mourning in autumn.

Spending six months with favorite Aphrodite,
The Goddess...

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Upon the font of a photograph
the full frontal magazine
slick press and press up
muscles in paper cut
the shape
the form
the make up
exponent of the elastic wonder push up

Squeeze the stone
for one drop of inspirations blood
should look like...

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I cause one's self confidence to crumble away  
Like a worn-down building left to decay 
I infect the minds of the old and young 
Trapping them in the isolated web I've strung 
I force...

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I’ve come to point in my life
Where I can look into my eyes
And say you are beautiful
But I cannot look down.
My face, I feel pretty
My eyes have this exotic look
The way my lips are shaped
The...

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The true fact is
No one
Is perfect
But somehow
There is a perfect image
For people 
To recreate
It's not fair
It unrealistic
And it's unachievable 
So 
Even though 
We
Try
To recreate
The 
“Perfect”
Image
We still 
Know we can’t

Which 
Leads us to
Doubt

This 
Image
Leads us to
A...

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No thing is as it was to be thankful for, thankful none
To be that unthankful for the life we see
Seen or sought all store bought 
Collecting venture every type
Fashion sensible inseams 
Thankful for, thankful none who are...

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Gym exuberance of inflated expectations,
          a zone of grunt and sweat
I curl my way to fifty crunches,
         ...

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How can you say such stuff
Saying that I’m not enough
When I look at myself looking back
You say there’s something I lack
Being big or being thin
Why does the lies win?
Saying your weight is bad 
Maybe you...

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I stare timidly into the softly lit mirror,
Its gaze staring back at me unrecognizable.
I've been told this person is my friend,
But its reflection paints a different picture.
Its mixture mixes a mess of colors I never...

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You invite me?
Cool calm infectious desire
Examine your SIRE
Claim your treasure

 Gaze into my soul and tell me what you see
A sensuous poison? Have a closer view
You are defenseless for a while.
Your wings clipped sure so...

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The mirror shows only a picture,
                             ...

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The scale starts to call and I cannot resist; constantly drawn to my biggest fear. 
The painful number that I see, never leaves my mind.
Every day. Every minute. Every second. She never stops - this...

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In my teens nothing bothered me,
Size 10 I could eat what I wanted,
My weight wasn’t something I worried about,

In my twenties and in my prime,
Size ten to twelve I watched what I ate,
Aerobics and weightlifting...

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I should have said:

You are boisterous and loud and joyful.

I should have said:

You are energetic and funny and fun.

I should have said:

You are more a warrior, a student, a leader.

I should have said:

You are more...

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Sometimes studying the mirror I'm overcome with chagrin
Feeling disappointed by this shell I'm dwelling in.
With my slightly too thick midriff there above my underwear,
I'm more the rotund apple than alluring luscious pear,
Making ludicrous comparisons to...

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