#modesty
if only modesty was a guard from being assaulted, objectified, or harassed
maybe then would i think there is power in that…
they say dress how you want to be addressed, yet the wrong hands wouldn’t hesitate to undress you
even when i’m dressed and covered up, they still aren’t respectful
it’s disgraceful…
why should i feel shameful when your acts are deep rooted in shame?
why should i suffer, and why should i carry the pain?
why should i be treated like an animal and hidden away, when in reality they are the ones who need to be tamed?
stop telling me modesty is a guard… i am not the one who needs to change
Jan 6
Jan 6, 2026 at 6:26 PM UTC
Your mind, a fortress of moral candour,
Yet so adorably modest.
Smarter than she thinks.
Positionality: very much-so a word.
Your humility is truly marvelous,
As is your Humbility : also very much a word, is astounding.
Steeled resolve,
You have evolved peace.
Dec 5, 2025
Dec 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM UTC
Dear girl,
don't be sad,
never lose hope,
for ever they say bad.
-
Remember then,
By God's grace, haven't they been from
the womb of a mother?
-
Let your beauty lie in your Character,
Let your Modesty be,
the answer to their liberal thoughts,
Let the purity lie in your heart .
-
Remember, you're
God’s creation,
A Father's child,
Some one’s fate,
And will be the role model for others.
-
Never lose hope,
Let the dog’s bark
at the Modesty of a Lioness,
for you know
may how many they be
they can't change the good in you.
For you are the Real QUEEN
-
Jul 24, 2025
Jul 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM UTC
Whether from arrogance or negligence, I yawn at their stance
Not a chance I’ll advance.
Science tends to disagree - research believes in therapy
As far as claiming it'd make me happy.
'Have a 30-minute walk each day',
She dares to say as I continue to pay.
'You carry trauma from your childhood'
'Navigate your thoughts and it’ll affect your mood'.
Sorry doctor, I’m lacking modesty -
I seem unable to take you seriously and seeing you hurts violently.
I could easily earn your degree.
Undoubtedly, people will say:
'How can she expect to be okay?'
'She's abusing of her sick leave pay'
'In no way committed to her healing journey'.
To which I’ll roll my eyes at any day.
Jul 22, 2025
Jul 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM UTC
It is a fair assumption
To believe that truth is habitually withheld,
In the daily routine of "inconsequential,
Miniscule" white lies.
As in larger defeats
Where the sting of humility or embarrassment linger,
In plans gone awry.
To understand this is not to condone this,
But never to engage in it.
To do so any different
Would only prove otherwise.
Feb 9, 2025
Feb 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM UTC
Forgive me, I won't
demand so much anymore --
and then receive more.
Feb 25, 2024
Feb 25, 2024 at 3:24 AM UTC
Become a (wo)man of peace
help the world, be content,
it isn’t up to governments.
Celebrate your free heart
in grateful virtue and
with modest speech.
Soothe the ever angry,
invite them in and dare trust;
be proud equals not at odds.
With new friends welcome,
double joys by sharing,
save the planet by being happy
Feb 15, 2023
Feb 15, 2023 at 12:26 PM UTC
In your name
There is such a beautiful description of soul
Touching all the chords of the heart
And the mind
Thanks for the introduction
Aug 8, 2022
Aug 8, 2022 at 12:12 PM UTC
They say you don't gain anything
From being humble;
That life doesn't find you
Hiding behind closed curtains.
I think that's the problem:
It doesn't need to find you
Because you've already been found.
Just because you weren't met
With the grandeur of "success"
It doesn't mean you haven't lived.
It's the simple things in life
That are truly the finest.
Oct 4, 2021
Oct 4, 2021 at 2:25 AM UTC
You, you are a
Thermodynamic
Buoyant
Force
******* like the
single-minded
Octopus
that takes and takes
Strong energy,
mild energy
Inhales the organically-grown
Petals
of all flowers, regardless
Good intentions.
that sure is nice
What humility,
Artificial
Plastic
Egotistical
Manufactured
Trademarked
Birthed
Regurgitated
and
too thoughtfully acted by
You.
But I see it.
You have
not landed.
The world needs your
footprint but
it does not need your self-indulged
hunger.
Be humble.
Your success is not
marked if
You are not humble.
Keep your tentacles
in your depths and
Be
Poised
Poised you seem to be and success is your process but
Humility is my truth.
We float on
neighboring clouds of
public service
that have not the same hue.
Take a step back.
I see you mean
No harm
like a dinosaur with no arms
Good intentions.
Take a step back.
You desire to envelop others yet
You do so
so
mindlessly
I see it.
Let your brain rest from the throne.
the world does not serve you
It serves nothing
and no one as
We are all lucky.
You say that you’re lucky
For all
to hear
just to endear
And that is the problem
My dear, be poised.
Publicize your life for
documentation?
No
Take a step back.
We need your
love
compassion
independence
ambition
Real
not fake.
Transform this and
Good intentions.
The world is not yours
You walk on its leaf
and repeated, recycled
identities
Take a step back.
The world is not yours.
Cameron Bell, Copyright © 2019
Mar 11, 2019
Mar 11, 2019 at 7:11 PM UTC
How can one believe
That there is no other life
In the universe?
Feb 17, 2019
Feb 17, 2019 at 11:57 AM UTC
I shut my bedroom door
now engulfed by the bindings of paper and pen
and I roll my chair to grey desk
stacked high with Dickinson, Bronte's three, and Alvarez
I pull out my writing tools and begin to contemplate
ideas that dare not be discussed in the public of society
Why is it that God must be a man and
What make the human taught ideal of modesty such a binding force
flow through my brain and I breath again
without measure or discernment I am free
in my freedom i think
back to the conversation my mother and I held this morning
A girl had stood in our line of view her hemline resting mid-thigh
My mother had turned to me
"Ellis look at that girl! I can see her ****** face aghast
I nodded
"It is disgusting that girls these days dress so provocatively!
Thank God I have a modest girl!"
I nodded again
and I thanked God.
-Modesty Is A Human Construct
Feb 16, 2019
Feb 16, 2019 at 7:33 PM UTC
I see your golden gown,
forming second skin,
demanding,
enslavement to its master;
I see your bejeweled crown,
displaying majestic sheen,
commanding,
thousand eyes from your suitors;
But do I see you naked down,
draped only in sunshine,
acknowledging,
the modesty of your creator?
Jan 7, 2019
Jan 7, 2019 at 12:29 PM UTC
Modesty diminishing.
Difficulty at the beginning.
Independence, confining
Taking apart stagnation.
Oct 28, 2018
Oct 28, 2018 at 4:32 PM UTC
She was the epitome of simplicity,
A key to elegance.
It was her style,
Her signature on what she wore.
Her own style she picked from fashion,
Cause fashion fades quickly,
Style remains forever,
It represents quality.
The colours she wore were those that looked good on her.
She dressed not to be noticed,
But, she dressed to be remembered.
It gave her confidence,
Boosted her personality.
Promoted modesty, beauty,
And above all elegance.
Jun 18, 2018
Jun 18, 2018 at 7:37 PM UTC
He who rides his horse
through the mountains of love
while spitting down on those
in the valley of seething hate
should be struck from his horse,
and cast down among them,
for he is no different.
Apr 9, 2018
Apr 9, 2018 at 6:55 AM UTC
Coming Down To Earth
If you’re famous,
There will always be a someone
Who has never heard or seen a picture
Of the likes of you;
Not seen your picture,
Doesn’t have the least idea
Who, what you are
Or what you stand for.
Doesn’t that scoot little you right down
To terra firma?
Started this in two fourteen.
Found it on a teeny hidden-somewhere-scrap.
It’s two eighteen: I feel the same as.
(rhymes with famous – see line 1)
Poet’s freedom once again,’’’
I can’t resist.
Might have been comedienne,
But then,
It’s not my calling.)
Anyway,
It does become one
(rhymes with someone -see line 2)
To come down to planet earth
And stick to anonymity.
Do your job,
Stick to your your day.
Things are working out your way
Without you knowing
What they’re doing.
Let the winds of fate and karma
Make the lack of show your army.
Coming Down To Earth 3.1.2018 Circling Round Reality; Definitely Didactic: Arlene Corwin
Mar 3, 2018
Mar 3, 2018 at 2:19 PM UTC
"O victory forget your underwear we're free"...
Yet we all keep our genitals intact, immaculate, in closure
Inside flannel suits and ties and shirts and microphones
And all of that ******** we created called modesty and decency
Oh...and kindness
Kindness is no more than a way to keep our will from funcioning
Modesty and decency no more than ways to keep our
love from being free
And if love can't be free, what else can?
Jun 21, 2017
Jun 21, 2017 at 6:35 PM UTC
When they saw her walking on the streets,
They saw oppression, dehumanization, and inequality.
Whilst they oppressed her with their vision
She wore her cape of grace, her drapes of black chiffon
Which also covered her face
free from all the judgment regarding beauty and ideals
the world was threatened by her walk
Although her posture was humble
She still walked with queen like grace
For she was super women and her Abaya was her cape
Her Niqaab was her shield form the worlds disgrace
And her Hijab was the crown she wore with all her grace
And she was a true woman
A woman oppressed not by her faith
But by society's obligations
She IS a woman empowered,
Empowered by her faith.
Mar 22, 2017
Mar 22, 2017 at 1:29 AM UTC
Your face says otherwise,
And you say that you are not beautiful,
I will go with my observation.
Yet unrevealed this face,
Appears to be angelic it does not at all,
I have seen you in my vision.
The face seems sculpted in paradise.
But it will take a genuine heart,
Not a beautiful face to win mine.
Jul 21, 2016
Jul 21, 2016 at 7:37 AM UTC
It’s contagious
And outrageous
Not very courteous
And quite ferocious
It is ridiculous
To call me pretentious
And it’s very conspicuous
That I am, au contraire, extraordinaire
Nov 13, 2015
Nov 13, 2015 at 5:36 AM UTC