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kate b Mar 2013
The expectation of society is a choke hold on mankind

To think, to imagine that beauty is only skin deep

Beauty, its confusing, wrong guiding ways keep

For is beauty a natural sign or bought?

With makeup?

With clothing?

Is that how beauty is sought?

It's a pure tragedy

That people don't see what they need

To think beauty is like an assignment

That people grade you with their judgement

Why can't beauty be nothing more

Than to have good character in store?

You can't choose your color of skin

Being bigger isn't a sin

Of all people who want beauty

Be who you want to be

And my hopes for the future

It will show for every creature
kate b Mar 2013
Oppression

Witholds definition



Keep us

Down under the radar



Making a fuss

To keep us where we are



No advance

In our ideas and thoughts



Not a chance

Of a war being fought



But what the hell?

Why not take them on?



Can't they tell?

The idea has dawned?



UPRISING.



UPRISING.



UPRISING.



It's coming soon.
Please do not ask me if this is based off the Hunger Games. Please.
kate b Mar 2013
Clouds breaking

Nature awaking

Centuries past

It stopped at last



Sweet winds blowing

No longer snowing

Plants budding

Creeks flooding



Creatures forgetting

That

     cold

            rush



Getting the hang of

   That

         spring

             touch



Winter's end

         Nature's jubilee
That's right folks, spring is here.
kate b Mar 2013
I was invisible

A brief flicker

A silvery wisp

A tingling light

A distant dream

      Fading

             Running

                    Sinking into darkness

      Gone

            in a flash

  Chasing you

yet never noticed

*Because I was invisible
kate b Mar 2013
1.

A man hacked through the dense, thorny vines

            He was frightened

                      As he stumbled upon

                               the golden ruin


2.


A little girl joyously scanned the bush if blackberries

                                        As she reached eagerly for one,

         she caught a bramble on her little finger

The girl burst into tears


3.

Why must a thorn be bad?

    It's the last struggle before victory.

      
4.

The righteous men wore laurel leaf crowns at the party in merriment

The sinner in the corner wore a crown of thorns


5.

A rose bush is bittersweet

                                               The glorious roses

             And the cruel brambles


6.

The wall was not made of stone.

                                A separated family could hear each other lament from either side


7.

The two roads went to the same place

                    One was paved and wide

The other was narrow and overtaken by the dense bush


8.

A weary family walked through a bed of thorns

             A new family walked to their freedom.


9.**

One does not go through life,

              without

a thorn
kate b Mar 2013
Rainbows, radiant beams lighting up my day

Streams of color chasing sadness away

Raindrops, frigid tears ruining the moment

Making things dreary and full of lament

It takes just a second- from joy to strife

This is the story of my life
kate b Mar 2013
a beacon of light

cutting through Night's shourd

a ghost's eerie glow

picking souls out of the crowd



that beam of gold

finding lost ships in the blue

that paranormal ray

coming to find you
Part IV. of "A Ferryman's Tale" collection
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