Short Cosmetic Poems

traveling teeth in cosmetic bag — silent partner

1/26/2018...

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It’s the simple aspects on earth I enjoy
A pretty face no cosmetic grace, Nature’s McCoy.

© Harry J Horsman  2010...

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Outside looking in
the body the hope desire
cosmetic media,
the mind is the true beauty
heart, soul those one cannot see.

© Harry J Horsman 2013...

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Now if  I mascara this,
Add some red lipstick,
Color blonde in my hair,
Botox if I dare,
Would I make me lovely, indeed,
Or profits for the cosmetic industry?...

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Brush Up

Autumn
cosmetic
facial features
cleansed anew niveous
Winter

2,3,4,6,2

2020 November 19
*Honorable Mention*
QUIN-TO your five line
~~Brian Strand...

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For those left behind
feeling the pace,
urban sprawl
remnants of the human race.
Revisited, looking in
cosmetic world
the haze removed
the urban battlefield.

© Harry J Horsman 2020...

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aka

"No More Masks"  or "Avon Calling"

It seems that your looks are genetic
And no one would claim they're magnetic
Improve the aesthetic!
Apply a cosmetic!
Synthetic is seldom pathetic!...

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A slender young woman in tightly-worn slacks
Obviously, she has far more than she lacks
Made up to the nines
She covers her lines
She reads about the latest cosmetic hacks. 


written June 9, 2021...

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keys
   work
      stress
         hot iron
           dirty dishes
      mother-in-law
   mail
chihuahua 
     noisy neighbors
        spill
           cosmetic bag
      air conditioning
   bills
dignity

6/29/2018...

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We circus animals were extremely tired of the ringmaster’s sass
They gave him the wing, the spit, and their nod said the ass.
A duck, a dog, and a tiny bear on a ball ran away too.
The ostrich limped out, for he was wearing a cosmetic shoe....

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I messed up my face somehow,
It cannot be age,
I know I do not look me,
What can be my surgery to remove
Plastic pain,
Plastic poverty,
Plastic hunger,
Cosmetic nothingness?
I need an imperfectly good sin-to-redemption.
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Hankered after plump pouting lips
Surgery the answer read all the tips
Now I'm a cartoon~think Donald Duck
Opening my mouth with horror I cluck.




Light Verse No:2
Poetry Contest
Sponsored
by
L. Milton Hankins
10/09/2021...

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My signal 
is made with my mouth
where I eat
and where I kiss.
I say yes around my lips,
biologically I may
suck in or
disembogue here.
My smile is
the main
face of my yes,
eight teeth
I keep fresh and
well shaped.
My smile is
more important than
my soul....

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Cat or Dog? Oh No-
I want a panther
with more spots than I have
on his long lean body
no matter how much time 
he spent sunbathing
in his youth.

Neatly aligned ears, 
cosmetic frown
furrowed in his brow, 
plank-like nose above
an I Mean Business 
mouth, and OH! 
those  topaz eyes....

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Pastoral Hymn


Formerly, one knew on sight the ones
who walked with economic purpose.
One had criteria: the color
of their robes, the meter
of their stroll, the semaphore of their
cosmetic blare.
One knew that night for them was dawn,
that night lit bright their signal.
Today, my pastor claims, 
one must inquire of them all.


Donal Mahoney...

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In a given day fluctuation chimed 
       drift its space aside of  well-known curve

Surge its ascend as glimpse in twig 
      tail of stars born from ashes sweep

Wipe sparkle in hole maybe illusion in distance
        ascend its glimpse magnet dusty reveal

Loose being state escapes its faithful hood
             crush in pieces vanish in cosmetic...

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Night Lit Bright Their Signal


Formerly, one knew on sight the ones
who walked with economic purpose.
One had criteria: the color
of their robes, the meter
of their stroll, the semaphore of their
cosmetic blare.
One knew that night for them was dawn,
that night lit bright their signal.
Today, my pastor claims, 
one must inquire of them all.


Donal Mahoney...

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What a beautiful face it seems
Her teeth is perfect and white as she beams
Why don't I have that beauty one screams
And so to the beauty parlour with many dreams
to get makeup treatments and many creams
And another falls to the cosmetic industry schemes
For the beautiful face is a product of Photoshop teams
Its the lasting inward character beauty that redeems
But the passing cosmetic fools gold is what society esteems...

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Growing Old
 
Women lose their pretty looks, 
Some to petty cosmetic crooks,
Others dally on foreign beach, 
Adonis studs their purses reach

But men just watch their bellies 
Grow, and with big car, trophy
Girls to go

For summer is the mating season,
When men and women, lose all
Reason.

And as the years take on their toll
The older-aged and flaccid loll,
For hanging skin does not atone,
Or money help them when alone...

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Unrealistic Expectations 

By Elton Camp

For problems, instant solutions would be great
Whether a big nose, ugly mouth or maybe weight
But is cosmetic surgery the answer to all our woes
So as to improve us from our heads to our toes?

I agree it would be great to look like a movie star
But even the best modern doctor can’t go that far
So it’s off to the cosmetic surgeon to get action
And hope not to end up ugly as Michael Jackson...

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oh god the land can perceive 
your full desperation
reigning in your heart to deceive

god the land ably beholds
the cosmetic beauty
your powdered skin beholds

god the land can surely see
this fake beauty in you
even from afar like a tall tree

for with this rain that heavily falls
and the sun that crazily burns 
and the wind that deeply blows

they erode your skin powder;
exposing panicky beauty in you 
crawling like a startled spider...

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Facing all the fiction in the words once written
Covering all the bites of the cosmetic bitten

Ticket admitting one never chosen to redeem
Hidden in dirty pockets sewed into your seams

A circle completes its trip and combines this year
By a moon that's full completes the full cycle of fear

Fell for the sad story tripped excusing what's true
Back again alone my friend how do I believe in you



bmdavey@11/26/2018...

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Lock step, atoms burned
Fiendish restless
Truncated waiting
Shop and drop
Stop and slop
Old ladies masquerade
Preachers audible in a drunken charade

A toothless Tuesday
Parking lot drivel
Copy of a copy of a copy
Total insomnia 
Hairless bent on rogaine
Young and stupid with cocaine

Hapless pleading
Loud steps and sniveling

Rise Above!
Rise out and Above!
The solar system shines on you
Comets of mercury
And you're betting on cosmetic surgery
Rise out and Above!...

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