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What is the definition of beauty?
I look at my face to see,
The eyeliner dark,
The highlights of my cheeks,
Powdered imperviously.
Mascara thick and
Lipstick bright,
I look like every girl here.

What is the definition of beauty?
Nothing can get through to me.
I don't cry:
That would ruin my placid personality.
Out in the rain I hide
Under a black umbrella,
Never wanting to dance.

What is the definition of Beauty?
No makeup can matter:
People can see I'm happy in my
Lucky lucid Eyes.
I'm never hiding behind myself,
I'm learning to enjoy who I am.
I love I laugh I'm having fun,
I dance out in that rain.
My red umbrella bouncing along as I
Jump from puddle to puddle.
Nobody can pretend I'm exactly as
The girl across the street.
I'm who I am and living it,
The difference of beauty and Beauty is in
Me.
Sometimes I struggle with who I am because I am not always excepted by those I admire. They often see beauty as an outside force, not as a inherit trait. I hope I don't judge like they do: Beauty resides on the heart.


Serendip Definition: a southern land of spices and warmth
Ozioma Ogbaji Aug 2015
I am no Prince of Serendip
My life is not a Persian fairy tale

But from this day my heart will always skip
A beat and I know this much is true
'Cause I wasn't looking, yet I found you

You are Serendipity
Can I be every love song written?
Or a longing lost in your heart?
Sweet melodies and
Forgotten harmonies
Are the ampersands linking my soul with yours.
Sempiternal presence and wishes,
Have you found a rocondite?
You will never be able to catch a bolide,
Nor find Yoknapatawpha.
Yet why do I feel so close to you?
A la belle étoile,
Under the beautiful star,
Maybe I wish to be held
In honest, caring arms.
Serendip will come at last,
Cicatrix will fade away.
As I slowly saxify,
Will you ever realize
Now is too late?
Quietus: receipt; release; act of dispatching or disposing of; knockout or fatal blow; death.
Ryan O'Leary Apr 2019
An old Persian name for
Sri Lanka, later becoming
Serendipity, chance, lucky.

It used to be Ceylon, which
incorporated the Kingdom
of Kandy.

Serendip can hardly now be
be associated with it's original
three princes of good fortune.
WendyStarry Eyes Dec 2019
MY favorite word Today!
○°•SERENDIPITY
Treasure of a word
From the story I read
Like the sight of a crashing wave on the edge of the deep blue see
Serendipity's similarity to waves crashing as we break from Our comfort zones
They lead us to insights to call our own
Horace Mann, Walpole came up with this terminology
When he came across treasure of unexpected discovery
A lost painting of Bianca Cappello
By: Giogio Vasari
A Persian fairy tale
The Princes of Serendip
A Tale like the word
A treasure,
°•I do insist!
SERENDIPITY ○°•

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