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c Sep 2019
You call me pretty like it’s nothing
Good-looking when you don’t mean it
Honey on the fly trap
Keeping me sugar sweet stuck
“Your soooo pretty... for a Mexican girl”
Ive heard this many times. For a Mexican girl
The geese are a honking loose thread across the sky. I can hear them in my wicker chair like they're sitting right next to me and I think their voices carry at least as far above as down below. So loud. The sound of changing seasons on the wing. You'd think a goose-whisper would be enough to keep their conversation going, but no. I need to hear them in my wicker chair too, apparently. I kinda like that. Maybe they are talking to me. Maybe their sounds are like street-songs for strangers, or God-praise, or apple pie cooling on a neighbor's window. Maybe they made something really pretty in their hearts, and it's so big they can't keep it down their noodle-necks anymore. And so they're singing it out, for the whole world to see, like a big grin, and it's just perfect that I hear it in my wicker chair, it makes it even better, and that's why they're so loud. It could be.
Vic Apr 2019
Your laugh is one of the prettiest sounds I ever heard
A poem every day.
trisha Aug 2019
so when they tell me i'm pretty
i'd lie
i just don't see the beauty
that lies in mine
Keiri Aug 2019
Simple beauty is often complicated.
One who tries too hard isn't pretty.
But where exacly is it stated.
What defines beauty?

One is appealing to the eye.
But can be rotten inside.
It can all be one big lie.
One doesn't care and doesn't try.

One can be visually unappealing.
But a beauty within.
In the end, that one would win.
But one is sad, it's a sin.

Simple beauty is simple and short.
True and honest, yet humble.
One cares and repells the wrong sort.
It's the one that'll make you stumble.
Meghana Aug 2019
The girl from the laps of a mother
Flies high into the sky with father
And plays around her brother.

As she steps into the world of strangers,
Her feet stopped at many doors
Searching for what she isn't sure of.

She was searching for things that can fill her emptiness
Things that can make her feel content.

Time moved on from being a kid
To a girl
And then to a woman.
But she never found what she was looking for.

All she sees is a world full of lies
Where things are truer than people
Where smiles are just for social media
And tears are just for drama.

And then she realized,
What if the world lies and she will not let those lies affect her...
What if some people are more than real...
Some people laugh from their heart and their eyes sparkle
What if tears are just a way to let go??

She then realized all she was searching for is within her
She is searching for her around the world.

There will always be someone more beautiful than you,
More intelligent than you,
Prettier than you,
Basically better than you.
But then, a flower never stops blossoming just because some other flower is blossoming a way better. It just accepts it's own style.

You deserve to be happy,
You deserve to be treated with respect
You deserve to know what it feels like to be special.
Never ever let anyone come along and tell you the other way round.

You are kind, Adorable, strong, independent and beautiful and you gotta believe that.
Samantha Dietz Aug 2019
You made me want to write again
Gave me the strength to fight against
the demons that are so obsessed
With keeping me down and depressed

I can't express the copious
amount of thoughts stuck in my head
These feelings need to be addressed
I'm drowning in my own suspense

Said, "Baby use those pretty words"
My lips are sealed shut with a smirk
I hide my fears behind my quirks
Ripping a mask off ******* hurts

You ease the pain with patient eyes
Your kisses help to catalyze
the deconstruction of disguise
My secrets are your greatest prize

My walls begin to crumble down
I hear the bricks break on the ground
It shakes my soul, I love the sound
We can rebuild together now
Jayla A Murdock Aug 2019
From the time we put a face to beauty
We alter how we view ourselves
She tells herself she will never compare to
Slim this
Pretty face that
But she is that
She is this woman who looks for pretty in all the wrong places
When pretty is she
It may hurt her to realize she is pretty
From the substantial amount of makeup
To the outfits she takes hours to find
Putting in so much time to pretty..
For the world
But in reality
She is
Pretty face that
She is the woman who takes off all of what she puts on
So when the day is over
Pretty hurts
When pretty is she who is looking into the mirror at me
Juno Aug 2019
I saw you once before
In one of my prettier dreams.
But now you’re actually here.
Is this really as it seems?
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