#thin poems on Hello Poetry

Quinton Horras Yard May 2014

The brimstones golden hunger, and leaking thoughts, the creeping delver lingers, haunts. Swelling faith, like flame to moths, truth re echoes like the sting of wasps. Cloaked man, from another land, faultlessly faithful in dying truth. Unhappy sinner, begs for refuge. Stirring again his thin sole shoes.

#thin #midnight #**** #haunt #linger #vagrant #brimstone

ElizabethS May 2014

The Eating Disorder

The toilet bowl is my mirror
I see the monster I've become
Every time I lose my food
A countdown has begun

I keep breaking promises
I thought that I would win
But the numbers on the scale
Are
       too
             high
                     to
                         keep
                                 me
                                       THIN

It gets better. Don't give up

#depressed #alone #battle #fight #food #eatingdisorder #anorexia #bulimia #sick #thin #ed #anorexic #fat

Alexis A May 2014

Being Pretty

I told you

just the other day

that I wanted to be a movie star

if only I was pretty

you stared into my eyes

and asked if my mirror was broken

'cause I looked straight off the runway stunning

I rolled my eyes

and said stop with the lies

I just want to be pretty

A few days later

I wanted to be a model

goodbye food,

hello gym

I said I could do it if I was pretty

you slapped me so hard

trying to bring me back to reality

but it was too late

she was already controlling me

Two weeks later

I'm told I'm gonna die

if I keep this up

but I want to become a singer

and a dancer

so back to the bathroom

goodbye binge

You took me to the ER

where people stopped and stared

at the girl who would do anything

to believe she's pretty

This is about my personal struggle with anorexia, so don't judge. I'm still in recovery, but I'm ready to let her (Ana) go.

#eating #disorder #die #movie #perfect #star #my #ana #anorexia #thin #struggle #ed #model

Molly Apr 2014

Beauty

With a body temperature
Below 96 degrees Fahrenheit,
Wrapping yourself in bed sheets
As translucent as your skin
Seems so nice but
Every minute you spend
Shivering is more calories burned,
So you try to ignore it
Or maybe you do two hundred more crunches
Because being athletic is healthy,
Right?

You open the pantry only to
deny yourself sustenance because you
are unworthy of
These simple pleasures, and
You almost let yourself
Eat an apple but
When you remember how
Good that girl in
the thinspo you have
Hidden on your phone looks,
You stop.

You flinch when your mother
Calls your skin porcelain,
Because that word means
You failed to restrain yourself
And you have always been taught to
Resist temptation, and
This is the ultimate test.

Bolded letters

#beauty #anorexia #bulimia #thin #ed

Daylight 4U2C Apr 2014

Sweeter Than Honey

This is not the person you once knew,
my face is dried and thin.
I haven't got the faintest clue,
how the picture remains,
nor who,
why,
or when.
I only recall some old 'honey' song
And how every line would begin,
"I love, love, love you."
As if to not speak of love was a sin.
I no longer know what to say or do,
struggling to remorse here once again.
It hasn't been very long,
but I feel I have forgotten the feel of your skin.

#love #sin #not #why #of #if #i #the #and #what #this #you #line #*** #my #no #skin #old #when #was #it #honey #do #only #to #speak #but #say #have #song #here #is #face #person #forgotten #thin #know #picture #feel #who #remorse #knew #once #long #would #how #again #every #longer #begin #your #remains #as #hasnt #or #been #some #very #got #dried #havent #faintest #clue #nor #recall #struggling

liza Apr 2014

thin

she wanted to be skinny.

     she wanted to ignore the skin on her body
     until it hung loosely off her skeleton
     like a wrinkled shirt on a hanger
     that needed ironing.

she wanted to be a stick
so that she could fit through the
spaces in the dark of trees
and understand how they fed off of
themselves.

     she wanted to know what it was like
     to have knives instead of collarbones,
     carving off the little chunks of fat,
     and throwing them to the side, letting the
     festering rats devour the residue of
     fourteen years of life.

she wanted to have hips that served as
mountains, looking like the alps,
with climbers covered in furs throwing hooks
over the niches in her body.

     she wanted a ribcage that would hold
     even the mightiest bird, without letting
     a single feather breach her defenses,
     never letting a ferocious caw escape her,

because she wanted to be thin.

#need #ribs #anorexia #thin #skinny #collarbones

Annabelle Lee Apr 2014

Little Miss Annabelle Lee

Miss Annabelle Lee
Such a pretty girl;
Her tall, thin frame
Her long, blonde curls

Miss Annabelle Lee
As light as a feather;
She drifts in the wind
Through the tough, stormy weather

Miss Annabelle Lee
She hates what she sees;
She's melting away
Blowing off with the breeze

Miss Annabelle Lee
Now so frail and so weak;
She needs to be thinner
But her body's calling defeat

Miss Annabelle Lee
Rest in peace, my dear friend;
You got your last wish
Now you're gone with the wind

I myself and people close to me have suffered with eating disorders, so they can be personal and touchy subjects to me. This was written about anorexia and some of the things the mindset can bring.

#anorexia #thin #wind #frail #stormy

i Mar 2014

collarbone

that perfectly shaped bone,
i can see it right through
your tender and thin
skin,
it is visible when you
breathe and swallow
my taste,
my venom.

#love #skin #breathe #thin #tender #venom #taste #collarbone #bone #shaped #perfectly #visible #swallow