Short Body Image Poems

Always do they eat
Never have they eaten
They do not conjugate
Verbs that make them thicken...

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I am unhappy with myself.
My body is clearly overweight
(And starving clearly isn't going to help).
I think I've lost some,
But it's just a water-weight illusion....

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Your stretch marks are like a vast network of river’s guiding you deeper into the heart of the Amazon, and anyone who ridicules you wouldn’t deserve to follow them anyway...

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The Egyptians walked sideways I figure
to conceal the fine points of their figure.
In a desperate scrimmage
with their own body image
diet mania they would prefigure....

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Walk in casually,
In a house of mirrors especially.
You might differ in shape and size,
But don’t worry life is just alike.
On the opposite wall,
You might see.
That’s a reflection of you. 
But not true exactly...

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bowed before you once again
i’m worshipping you 
when i said i wouldn’t 

bent in half
i’m surrendering both my dinner 
and my fears

knelt down before you
my legs tremble 
my hands and chin drip

hunched over you
i am obedient
under your tyrannical rules 

there will be no revolution today...

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To resist the op(press)ion 
of the two (dement)sional flatland world of glossy magazines,
I have (ob)seen women

Mutilate their forearms with deep(er) strokes of a razor
So that they may prove with their b(lo)ody
To themselves and their (conf)users
That their image (has depth)

Has depth (their image

Has depth)...

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Image of God

Made in the image
The Book says..
Then arises our 
Dilemma of conditioning:
We look for God in
Our body-image..
And our mind exclaims:
Why not..? What's next..?
But of conditioning beware..!
The Book also says: I Am
With nothing beside..
Bringing shock and awakening:
Our body-image dances
Within and As
I am......

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My legs are funny shaped.
My stomach isn't flat.
Why can't The Lord
Just take me back?

Why not create a new me,
One I could love?
Why leave me in this body I 
hate,
But should love?

Where's my thigh gap?
Why is my stomach too big?
Why can't I be perfect
Like all these other twigs?

I'm ashamed of my image
And how I see myself.
I have terminal body issues.
I really need some help....

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i remember
being by the pool
i was no more than ten
my grandmother
was enjoying herself
chatting and laughing
suddenly
i caught
myself thinking

it will be nice
to get to that age
and not care
what my body
looks like

what !

even at that age
i knew
there was something
wrong

they had gotten
to me

i was already
brainwashed



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on March 4, 2021...

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

You only realise this, the more you get older

I want to take a moment to look at my life

I have a job, my health, and I am even a wife

I am made to feel mad because I have gotten a little bigger

But I really don't want to live out my life with a 6 year old's figure

why cant people just leave me alone and let me be

I am happy with the way that I look
I am happy being me. x...

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My stomach twists, 
Empty.
I'll run to forget the pain,
Busy.
Drinking water helps,
Better.
I go home and shower, 
Clean.
My reflection catches my eye,
Fat.
I look away,
Shame.
I flip on the TV.
Bored.
Victoria's Secret ad comes on,
Curious.
Their bodies chiseled into perfection,
Jealous
Tv turned off,
Wishing.
Empty refrigerators will stay,
Almost.
Next workout to burn off more,
Thin.
My stomach wrenches,
Empty....

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The strength in me
grows stronger 
every second ,every minute 
every hour ,every day
the stronger it became's
the happier I seem to feel 
the more energy I seem to have
the better company I seem to be around others 
The strength in me 
grows stronger 
every week, every month , every year 
As I became older I became wiser
As my body image changes 
my style became's more casual 
my self esteem goes higher 
The strength in me grows
all the time 
as long a I allow it to 
and I do...

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