Beauty Vanity Poems

I want to write something beautiful for you
How can when all I am is ugly?
Grab a mirror just to be sure
Reflecting sunsets and puppies
Can something...

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Chaos ensues when she enters the venue
Deep-seated insecurities and childhood issues
She takes the beauty and makes it problematic
Chaos is a defining feature of her habits

She...

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Enthusiasm, a fickle friend,
Illumining the soul, or chasing an end.

A trumpet call to start the race,
Run with heart, or without a face.

Honoring the master’s call...

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Is beauty a choice? 
Is it our loudest voice?
Does it render us true tender?
Is it the greatest offender? 
Does it know its roll?
Does it pay...

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There was a lady in her late thirties

She loved juicy gossip and kitty parties

Kids were two, an older boy and a younger girl

Naughty devils but...

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The day I looked and saw sea in its entirety
I cringed at its depth and prayed for mercy

I saw the good, the bad, and the...

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I crossed over this caring bridge the sun shined 
so bright I hardly noticed the humvee at the light 
signaling green to go and what...

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VANITY REBORN

Vanity.

Long locks of luxury
Taken, as 
Delilah
Stole strength
From Samson
Without asking,

He was unwilling.
 
He did not know 
His strength lay not in
The beauty of his hair
But...

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1

sunflowers ring
teenagers ChatGPT
Sapphic know-how

2
her décolleté blouse
and see-through saree—
curve’s vanity

3
a curled snake
with fangs ready to poison
love’s narrow passage

4
sky’s canvas-
disfigures in no time
my funny face

5
she wrings her...

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HEALTHY SENIOR

My mother used to feed me to grow up big and strong
Cauliflower and broccoli, some foods that taste so wrong
How could anyone believe that...

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What comes of Lady Sugarton  
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Perfect is a thought 

A thought of life without time
Other than when we wake and when we sleep
A thought thought of so much Love
It can...

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Eyes still shut my mind begins to race 
A familiar awakening and endless chase
Toward the feeling of emptiness, feeling of pain
With the ultimate goal to...

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Broken Beauty

By Mark D. Stucky
Glamour is a hollow, shiny shell,
a rapid, pretty paint job
on an insubstantial surface,
that alluringly promises much
but never satisfies the hunger.

True human...

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