Standards Beauty Poems

It’s a funny thing, life 
Like the tightrope we balance on, the maze we forage, 
Poised and sharp like an edge of a knife 
We...

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Beauty has an expectation.
It can be damaging and filled with infactuation.
Growing up in a world of a certain dedicated beauty, It can be confusing.
Beauty is...

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You and I were separate beings, at the time when you met me. 
Then I found to my delight, a friendship formed that very night....

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A heart so pure, a soul so bright, Seeks a love that's free from worldly night. No smoke, no flames, no haze to blind, Just...

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Reminiscing through the album of perpetuity,
I came across a thorn that kissed my skin, 
and murmured into my soul, a powerful stance,
stitching soft whispers in...

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In a world where beauty's confined,
To a frame, a shape, so pre-defined.
I refuse to bow to discrimination's hand,
Refusing to let it define me.

No more the...

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“STANDARDS”

Let’s talk about the standards of the general society,
And not just society, the beliefs, normalizations and false norms believed by variety,
We live in a new...

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I am beautiful no matter how dirty I feel
There is beauty from ashes to ashes and dust to dust, and muddy water has never been...

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One would not know, to look at me,
my years spent at the ballet barre -
tights sticking to me in summer,
cold fingers in winter.

And the aching...

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Oh my god she's so fat, 
her stomach has rolls. 
And her thighs shake when she walks, 
unbelievable that, 
someone would comment on someone's folds....

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Poet’s Note: Beauty used to benumb beholders. Today’s beauty is simply numbered and indexed. One thousand (mille-Helens) make one Helen, the unit fashioned after Helen...

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Help me to
find identity in you
understand my worth
value your standards
recognize my unique qualities
designed by you
Lord, to you I pray

Help me to 
appreciate me
see myself the...

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Mirror mirror on the wall, tell me the beauty standard that society set for all.
  Telling a woman how to behave, submitting all stereotypes...

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The sapphire iris blinks
the long blonde lashes meet
against the milky white skin
the hair made up into blonde curls
her frock with frills
clearly marking the standards
Her bottom...

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When she was six years old,
she tried to make her hair look like 
how a friend’s did in school
but her coils wouldn’t kink anymore.
Her mama...

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